02122cam a2200313 i 4500 546564195 TxAuBib 20220119120000.0 201022s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020047459 9781250776686 hardcover 1250776686 hardcover (OCoLC)1151060023 TxAuBib rda Garcia, Gabriela, 1984- Of women and salt / Gabriela Garcia. First U.S. edition. New York : Flatiron Books, 2021. 207 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. From 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers, from Cuba to Mexico, Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals--personal and political, self-inflicted and those done by others-that have shaped the lives of these extraordinary women. A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers, the legacy of the memories they carry, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America's most tangled, honest, human roots"-- Provided by publisher. 20220119. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Cuban American women Fiction. Immigrants Family relationships Fiction. Family secrets Fiction.