However, every page is full of writing that illuminates the depth of each character’s suffering in unforgettable ways. This honesty makes Of Women and Salt a hard, uncomfortable read because there are broken ribs, murder, lost teeth, hunger, and abuse here, all presented in real, heartbreaking passages. Garcia’s clean, straightforward prose cuts like a scalpel to expose the pain of leaving home and the trauma-both physical and emotional-that shatters the women in her book. At once a multigenerational saga about Cuban women learning to survive after losing everything and a brutally honest look at the immigration system in the United States through the eyes of a Salvadoran mother and daughter deported to Mexico after building a life in Miami, this novel captures the beauty of refusing to surrender.
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