Of Women and Salt: A Novel

Mojo Disjointed but beautifully written. The vast number of characters confused me at times but that wasn't very important.

Loved how it all came full circle in the last chapter , very interesting

(Audio book)
Lots of gravitas for such a young writer. I enjoyed the Cuban history, the women's narratives, and look forward to reading more from this strong voice.

Heart wrenching story about the complicated family relationships between women... Daughters, cousins, mothers, and grandmothers. Garcia gives the readers a glimpse of cuban history, and background of El Salvador and Mexico. She delves into themes of immigration struggles, the toll of beauty, and addiction. Very well written book. I wish there was less skipping around with the timeline as this made it hard to follow. I was also left wanting more of the Cuban great-grandmother story.

⭐⭐⭐⭐️ / 4 stars

This was another "Last Chance" book at risk of being discarded due to lack of circulation at the library where I work.

This is a fairly short book so I listened to the audio while at work and finished it in less than two working days.

What the author had started as several short stories morphed into a novel following multiple generations of women and how their lives became intertwined.

While at times a little dark with uncomfortable subject matter, Of Women and Salt is a profound and necessary read as pertinent to today's world as it is to that of the past.

The audio is very well done though perhaps multiple narrators would have allowed for greater ease of following each storyline.