Of Women and Salt: A Novel

Named a Best Book of the Year:

"When Jeanette agrees to take in the daughter of a neighbour detained by ICE, she is suddenly forced to reckon with her complicated ties to her mother―herself an immigrant―and her grandmother who still lives in Cuba. Following three generations of Cuban women from Mexico to Miami, Gabriela Garcia’s debut novel promises to be a sweeping tour de force about addiction, displacement, and the legacy of trauma." - Harper's Bazaar

"This gripping, accomplished debut follows generations of Cuban women, from María Isabel, rolling cigars as she listens to the words of Victor Hugo and men die around her, to Jeanette, struggling with addiction in Miami, and trying to find a place in the world that feels real. An interlocking portrait of women striving, loving, losing, getting lost and getting found." - Lit Hub