From nineteenthcentury cigar factories to presentday detention centres. From Cuba to the United States to Mexico, Gabriela Garcia&rsquos Of Women and Salt follows Latina women of fierce pride, bound by the stories passed between them.&lsquoVivid details, visceral prose and strong willful women&rsquo &ndash Angie Cruz, author of DominicanaFive generations of women are linked by blood and circumstance, by the secrets they share, and by a single book passed down through a family, with an affirmation scrawled in its margins We are force. We are more than we think we are.1866, Cuba Mariacutea Isabel is the only woman employed at a cigar factory. These are dangerous political times, and as Mara begins to see marriage and motherhood as her only options, the sounds of war are approaching.1959, Cuba Dolores watches her husband make for the mountains in answer to Fidel Castro&rsquos call to arms. What Dolores knows, though, is that to survive, she must win her own war, and commit an act of violence that threatens to destroy her daughter Carmen&rsquos world.2016, Miami Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, is shocked when her daughter Jeanette announces her plans to travel to Cuba to see her grandmother Dolores. In the walls of her crumbling home lies a secret, one that will link Jeanette to her past, and to this fearless line of women.Of Women and Salt is a haunting story about the choices of mothers and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their truth...

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