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marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Of Women and Salt is made up of interwoven snapshots. It starts with Jeanette, a young woman struggling with substance abuse in modern-day Miami who takes in her neighbor, a Salvadoran child whose mother has been taken by ICE. Through a non-linear timeline, we meet Carmen, Dolores, Maria Isabel—the Cuban women who came before her. And we hear the stories of the Salvadoran women as well. All of them women who make choices that their daughters may never understand. Gabriela Garcia’s characters are complex—flawed yet vibrant. This slim volume is like a toe dipped into a vast ocean of intergenerational trauma and the stories it conjures. The heartbeat of these stories is survival
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse and Drug abuse
Moderate: Addiction, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, and Blood