Of Women and Salt e-bog
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From nineteenth-century cigar factories to present-day detention centres, from Cuba to the United States to Mexico, Gabriela Garcia's Of Women and Salt follows Latina women of fierce pride, bound by the stories passed between them.'Extraordinary . . . stunning' - Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory'Vivid details, visceral prose and strong willful women' - Angie Cruz, author of Dominic...
E-bog
90,41 DKK
Forlag
Picador
Udgivet
15 april 2021
Længde
224 sider
Genrer
1KBB-US-SEFM
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781529031539
From nineteenth-century cigar factories to present-day detention centres, from Cuba to the United States to Mexico, Gabriela Garcia's Of Women and Salt follows Latina women of fierce pride, bound by the stories passed between them.'Extraordinary . . . stunning' - Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory'Vivid details, visceral prose and strong willful women' - Angie Cruz, author of DominicanaFive generations of women are linked by blood and circumstance, by the secrets they share, and by a single book passed down through a family, with an affirmation scrawled in its margins: 'We are force. We are more than we think we are.'1866, Cuba: Maria Isabel is the only woman employed at a cigar factory, where each day the workers find strength in daily readings of Victor Hugo. But these are dangerous political times, and as Maria begins to see marriage and motherhood as her only options, the sounds of war are approaching.1959, Cuba: Dolores watches her husband make for the mountains in answer to Fidel Castro's call to arms. What Dolores knows, though, is that to survive, she must win her own war, and commit an act of violence that threatens to destroy her daughter Carmen's world.2016, Miami: Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, is shocked when her daughter Jeanette announces her plans to travel to Cuba to see her grandmother Dolores. In the walls of her crumbling home lies a secret, one that will link Jeanette to her past, and to this fearless line of women.Of Women and Salt is a haunting meditation on the choices of mothers and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their truth despite those who wish to silence them.