Gabriela Garcia wrote Of Women And Salt. This short novel is a story of five generations of women from one family and two generations of women from another family. The first four women in the five generation story were born in Cuba. The fifth woman, Jeannette, was born in Florida. Jeannette has addiction issues and she is very curious about her heritage because her mother won't tell her anything. Before she travels to Cuba to meet her grandmother, she impulsively takes in the 6 year old daughter of her neighbor when the neighbor is picked up by immigration officials and taken to a detention center. The deported El Salvador woman and her daughter make up the two generation chain of the story. From 19th century Cuban cigar factories to modern times, women are tenacious in the choices they make. I was most enchanted with the Cuban stories before Fidel Castro.
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