Of Women and Salt -- Gabriela Garcia

<p><b>AN INSTANT <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><b><i>THE WASHINGTON POST </i>NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021<br></b><b>A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK </b> <p/><b>WINNER of the Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Fiction Award - International Latino Book Awards</b> -<b> WINNER of</b><b><br>Best Literary Fiction - She Reads Best of 2021 Awards</b> - <b>FINALIST for the 2022 Southern Book Prize</b> -<b> LONGLISTED for Crook's Corner Book Prize</b> - <b>NOMINEE for 2021 Goodreads Choice Award in Debut Novel and Historical Fiction</b><b> <p/>A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born</b> <p/>In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt. <p/>From 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers, from Cuba to Mexico, Gabriela Garcia's <i>Of Women and Salt</i> is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals--personal and political, self-in