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Of Women and Salt | Gabriela Garcia

Updated: Dec 27, 2021

Read If: you love family legacies, especially those of women; you have your own family issues.

First of all, this cover could not get any more eye-catching.

Of Women and Salt follows a handful of women, all touched somehow by immigration. There are times that your heart really aches for these characters, where you can see the one thing that trapped them in their situation or the moment they kind of settled in for acceptance.


One review calls this story "sweeping," and I guess you could look at it that was in consideration that it spans generations. But chronologically, it skips around quite a bit, even with a single character's story, which can make it hard to follow/piece together.


Pros: Exhausting in a good way; can female immigrants ever catch a break?? A loosely woven story about immigration, women and family ties.


Cons: LOOSELY woven. Even though the characters are related, with the timeline shifting, it felt hard to tie it all together. One character just disappears suddenly and (spoiler) is explained off as an OD, which makes sense considering her past, but it's very abrupt and doesn't get brought up again. The mother is so different from her drug addict daughter that the interactions lack a depth or emotional connection. It fell a bit short of what was promised.




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