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Latinx Authors & Hispanic Cultures

Of Women and Salt

by Gabriela Garcia

"From a Cuban cigar factory to a Miami detention centre: mothers, daughters, salt."

In 1866, a woman rolls cigars while revolution brews; in present-day Miami, her descendant Jeanette battles addiction and answers the door to an ICE raid next door. Garcia braids five generations of women across Cuba and the US into a fierce meditation on what mothers pass down — and what they can't.

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An instant New York Times bestseller.

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