An Interview with Gabriela Garcia

Of Women and Salt, Gabriela Garcia’s debut novel, fuses memory with history. The lives of five generations of Cuban and Cuban American women, and an El Salvadorian neighbor and her daughter, intersect in unexpected ways that reveal matriarchal choices, intergenerational trauma, and what it means to be an outsider in the largest context—country, family, and even one’s self. Nine female voices coalesce inside poetic and political prose that resonates with precision and heart. The complexity of motherhood is given full consideration as the bond between mothers and daughters is portrayed with aching authenticity.