A review by sassylk
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I don’t know what I thought about this, to be honest. The ending made me cry a lot, but that is also wound up with my own emotional vulnerability at the moment, so I’m not sure it’s anything to go off in terms of quality. I liked the sporadically beautiful prose, and I thought the interweaving of women’s stories was a lovely concept, but I found it quite difficult to remember who was talking, what year it was, and what had happened to who. At times it felt less like there were individual plots and more like Garcia had just tried to pack as much trauma into the novel as she possibly could. I guess the ending wrapped it up in some way (
and I’m glad  Ana was given a happy ending, the girl has been through enough!
). It was interesting to learn more about the history of Cuba, and it was clever to show this through a fictional family history as well. So yeah, on the whole I enjoyed it, but at times I found it hard to keep up with the constant narrative switching. 
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