Gabriela Garcia’s debut novel, Of Women and Salt, took the world by storm. Not only did it become an instant New York Times bestseller, but it also became the Good Morning America Book Club selection. All for good reason, too. The book is masterful, evoking a history of a Cuban family and the brutal events that transpire in chapters that are beautifully linked yet feel like a short story collection at times.
Of Women and Salt
Since much of the work centers around relationships between women, the theme Garcia landed on was “five books that center relationships between women,” made sense. She told me, “I’ve always been interested in writing about women—mothers, daughters, sisters, friends, found family, lovers, even neighbors. Complex relationships between women, and how those relationships survive and even thrive in a patriarchal, hostile world are of deep interest to me.”
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