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A review by cassielaj
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
challenging
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This book does so much in 200 pages, and it almost shouldn’t work, but it does. In almost a vignette style, it explores mother-daughter relationships across time and borders. It is full of sorrow, resilience, power, loss, and love.
Graphic: Death, Murder, Xenophobia, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, War, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Deportation