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Of Women and Salt
Of Women and Salt | Gabriela Garcia
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We are force. We are more than we think we are. Five generations of women, 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: Mara 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 Mara 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 Castros 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 Carmens 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. From nineteenth-century cigar factories to present-day detention centres, from Cuba to the United States to Mexico, Gabriela Garcias Of Women and Salt follows Latina women of fierce pride, bound by the stories passed between them. It 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.
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Singout
Of Women and Salt | Gabriela Garcia

My October #bookspin (trying again!)
1. We Measure the Earth with our Bodies
2. Olga Dies
3. Land of Love and Drowning
4. Things are Never
5. Bad Girls
6. The Conductors
7. How The Garcia Girls
8. The Savage Detectives
9. Love after Love
10. Fresh Banana Leaves
11. A Small Place
12. I Am a Taxi
13. Aunties
14. Nasty Brutish
15. Book of Goose
16. Migrations
17. Pure Colour
18. Wild Tongues
19. The King
20. Bandit Queens

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Singout
Of Women and Salt | Gabriela Garcia
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Excellent multi-generational book, starting with a 19C woman cigar roller and leftist husband, and focusing mainly on her g-g-granddaughter, an American drug addict wanting to reconnect with her estranged Cuban family. Focus is on the complexity of women in the same family with different views on tradition, identity, and migration, and a parallel story about Salvadoran women.
#ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Cuba
#Booked2023 #Threegenerations #Bookspin

Librarybelle Good choice! 1y
Singout The Salvadoran theme was also very powerful: a woman who has been taken away by ICE and whose seven-year-old daughter is initially taken in by the main character, who reluctantly turns her in to a government institution that sent her with her mother back to Mexico, ignoring the fact that they are actually Salvadorans. The same narrative of desperately trying to escape to the new United States, that I‘ve been reading in other books ensues. (edited) 1y
Cinfhen Excellent choice - I read this too but wish the flow of the interconnected stories might have been better structured/ the time jumps were very difficult to follow 🤷🏼‍♀️ 1y
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 1y
BarbaraBB Sounds good 1y
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Singout
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Mario says I am not like other girls. Except that deep down I know that I am other girls: the woman beside me at the lipstick counter who always wears the same color because one day a man complimented her on it, my mother, who buys and buys, sure she hasn‘t found the right cream, the right dress, to win a man back. All the categories collapse at the behest of the men who make them. Mario has no idea the time and energy I spend trying to hide this.

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squirrelbrain
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I loved this book, following 3 generations of women from #cuba all battling their own demons. I was most invested in Jeanette‘s story, as she struggled with addiction in modern-day Miami. I also found the tangential story about immigrants from #elsalvador fascinating, and liked how it linked in to the main story.

I‘m using this for #cuba, for #readingtgeamericas23, but there‘s a tiny bit of #elsalvador and #mexico in there too.

TrishB This has been on my pile for a while! 1y
Librarybelle This sounds interesting! 1y
BarbaraBB I keep this in mind for Cuba! 1y
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KristiAhlers
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Representing Cuba for #ReadingTheAmericas2023 I selected this book. So very good. It‘s a story about family and three women and the roles they play in each others lives. Beautifully written. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle

Librarybelle This is on my to read list! 2y
KristiAhlers @Librarybelle happy reading. I was so caught up with the different characters! 2y
BarbaraBB Another stack for me! 2y
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Jolynne
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A story of women and oh what a story. Throughout the book I kept thinking about the relationship between Jeanette and Ana, now I know.

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andioop
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Mehso-so

Quick, not bad

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DanaR
Of Women and Salt | Gabriela Garcia

I loved that this was written from they eyes of Cuban and Salvadoran women, some of the most invisible in this country. Each character was beautifully written with all their flaws and strengths. I love the Discussion Topics at the end. Thought-provoking, a gentle reminder that every face has a story, and single actions can have generation-defining consequences.

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DanaR
Of Women and Salt | Gabriela Garcia

Picked this up from my library‘s Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month collection...it was selection #2, the first one ended up being an audio book (We Set the Dark on Fire), which wasn‘t available in ebook. The premise sounds interesting.

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Cinfhen
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Some really beautiful writing
A series of interconnected vignettes of one Cuban family focusing on the relationships between mothers and daughters.
The story is non linear but each new heading clearly states the year, plus there‘s a family tree.
The author introduces another mother/daughter pairing, while not from the same family, they do interconnect in an interesting way, adding to the story.
A strong debut from an author to watch.

TrishB Ohhh, I have this on the pile. I kept putting it down because - short stories 🤷‍♀️ but interconnected sounds ok. 2y
Megabooks Glad you enjoyed this! It worked much better for me in print than audio. 2y
Cinfhen Yeah, I could see how audio would be confusing @Megabooks I think you‘ll like it @TrishB it‘s super short!!! (edited) 2y
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CarolynM I liked this one a lot too🙂 2y
Cinfhen I‘m glad it wasn‘t much longer @CarolynM I felt like I had a good grasp of the situation within the 200 pages - you know what I mean?!?? 2y
CarolynM Yes, indeed. It‘s always like a book that knows when enough is enough. 2y
Cinfhen Exactly @CarolynM I appreciate a book that can say more in fewer pages 🙌🏻📚 2y
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Coleen
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I loved how each generation of women were woven together to create the story. But the book was short, and while that made it an easy read, I felt like some of the storylines were cut short, leaving me wanting more.

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Cinfhen
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Since we‘re checking into a hotel for the weekend, I‘m hoping I‘ll have some quiet “me” time 🙏🏼 Im only taking 2 physical books, since I still have my audiobooks and kindle😎

Megabooks Both fantastic books! Enjoy it all dear friend!! 😘😘 2y
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April
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Some very powerful writing in this—a stunning first page as well. I felt, though, that the connection between Jeanette and Ana was a bit unfinished. My favorite part was Dolores‘ chapter—I would love to read an entire book on her alone!

Megabooks Agree re: Jeanette and Ana, but a fantastic book! 2y
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steph_phanie
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
This was a beautiful novel that wove together multiple generations of women and the struggles they faced. Revolution, addiction, abuse, loss. How different and yet how similar the women are in their suffering and their fight. Set in Miami, Mexico, and Cuba.

Highly recommend.

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Bookwormjillk
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Mehso-so

From addiction to immigration, there was a lot going on in this book. I think it would have been better if the author had created a book of short stories about the characters rather than trying to pull them together. #FoodAndLit #Cuba

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rebbyj
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Panpan

Nope. Too bad.

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Bevita
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Mehso-so

Parallel story of a Cuban family—drug addict daughter, grandmother still in Cuba, unlikely unaccompanied minor tossed in. It was ok but I didn‘t feel like the characters connected in any meaningful way. Easy read so I finished it.

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TheDrunkenLibrarian
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Obsessed with this cover 😍

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Sarahreadstoomuch
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First book for the new book group I‘m starting at work… I listened to this one, and there is so much packed into this, and with timelines that jump around a bit that I think I would have benefited from sitting and reading more slowly. There is a lot of pain here, from immigration to addiction and so much in between and I love that it is purely told from the female characters. They have a lot to say.

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Erin.Elizabeth10
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I think I‘d have to read this book again to truly glean more from it. It‘s written from the perspective of multiple characters in multiple times lines, jumping back and forth, but I enjoyed how that helped unfold the story piece by piece. All the perspectives are women, and they are all flawed, but also I could appreciate them in different ways. This book deals with many hard topics, but it‘s a beautiful reflection on some immigrant experiences.

Megabooks I had to read it twice. I got so much more the second time. 3y
Erin.Elizabeth10 @Megabooks I bet I would too! 3y
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momchalance
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Beautifully heartbreaking. Well written, although the time hops for the main character were a little confusing. I had to flip back a few times to keep the timeline straight in my head, but I don't feel it was bad enough to deter someone from continuing to read.

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momchalance
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"She marveled at the magic of it all, how human beings had thought to etch markings on Stone to tell their stories, sensed each lifetime too grand, too interesting, not to document."
-Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt: A Novel

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Read.Riot
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Panpan

I wanted to love this book, but the prose was pedestrian and overwrought, the characters were underdeveloped (especially Gloria), and the ending was far too sentimental.

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This book was too disjointed with the different storylines. The different perspectives didn‘t track even in such a short book. There were interesting themes that could have been powerfully conveyed but didn‘t hold together.

Read.Riot I just finished this book today, and I was most disappointed. It had such potential, but was just too choppy with underdeveloped characters. 3y
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AlizaApp
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Several women consider motherhood and responsibility amidst problems with addiction and ICE. Especially loved the Cuba flashbacks.

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wen4blu
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When a friend told me this was the best book she‘s read all year, I had to run right out and buy a copy. Unfortunately, all the books have the “gma book club selection” printed right on the cover. I hate that. Why can‘t the celebrity endorsements use stickers?!

ErikasMindfulShelf Such a good book!! 3y
Tamra Agreed re:stickers. 3y
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Sydneypaige
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Nearly impossible to put down, so so good. This is an intergenerational novel of immigration to America and lives in home countries. There is so much pain that runs through families and impacts lives farther in the future than they can know.

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mollyrotondo
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book was beautifully written. I really liked reading about each generation‘s female experience as an immigrant in America and living in Cuba contrasted with a mother and daughter illegal immigrants and their experience with deportation. My favorite sequence was home with the panther. Recommend. This was my #bookspinbingo No. 24 pick.

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 3y
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Megabooks
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Changing formats made me fall for this book!

The audiobook suffered due to a single, mediocre narrator for many women. Plus, this was marketed as a novel, not the interconnected short stories it reads as.

After I changed my mindset and switched to print, this is now an enthusiastic pick! Garcia shares the rich tapestry of a Cuban family from the 1800s until now. Contrasting them are a Salvadoran mom and daughter who have a different immigration.

marleed I experienced this on audio, as well. I was so disappointed that I didn‘t feel about it the way I anticipated that I started the audio over and listened again. I was so glad I did, because then realizing how the book was written, I was able to understand the book. Had I had a print format, I would have switched to that format, too. 3y
Megabooks @marleed yes, I read the audiobook in April and was so disappointed. Then I heard the author in an interview say that it had started out as short stories, and I was all, “oh! That‘s why it didn‘t work for me.” Then I couldn‘t get trying it again out of my head, so I bought a print copy last week. 👍🏻 it‘s great in print! 3y
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CarolynM I can see why you didn't like it on audio. I thought it was pretty good in print. 3y
Megabooks @SamAnne awesome!! 3y
Megabooks @CarolynM agree! I very much enjoyed the print version. 3y
Cinfhen I will look for the print version!! I love interconnected stories🥰Thanks for the heads-up!! 3y
Megabooks @Cinfhen I think this is definitely in your wheelhouse!! 3y
Cinfhen Me too!!!! 3y
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Floresj
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I loved Garcia‘s writing style, the short chapters hopping across generations to form background on each character, and the characters were flawed, yet easy to like and root for. My only complaint with the book is that I wanted it longer! She packed in a lot in 240 pages, and I wanted another chapter on each character. Great book!

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Karmapen
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Honestly I was really unimpressed with this book. It felt…unedited. Why start a book with a family tree and put an x in it if you literally never mean to discuss it? Why include a stray cousin in Cuba who gets half of one story and then shunted to the sidelines? Why why why? So much of this book felt like it had potential and then went nowhere.

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CarolynM
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Interconnected short stories focussing on the experiences of several generations of women from a Cuban family both in Cuba and in Florida, exploring mother daughter relationships and what is lost, as well as what is gained, by immigration. There are also stories about the experiences of illegal immigrants. Interesting, but not as impactful as it might have been.

TrishB I have this one but have been ignoring because it‘s short stories! 3y
LeeRHarry I flicked through this at the library the other day but didn‘t take it home - sounds like I need to 😊 3y
CarolynM @TrishB Although each story could be read alone and the stories are not in chronological order they make up one big story. It's what Frank Moorhouse calls discontinuous narrative. I quite like it when it's done well. This one is done well enough. 3y
CarolynM @LeeRHarry I liked it, but I wouldn't push it on to anyone. I think it's worth your time if the themes interest you. I'll be interested to see what you think if you read it. 3y
Amiable Love that cover 3y
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MelKelsey
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Book 70
A well-written literary novel about multiple generations of Cuban and Cuban-American women. The story jumps timelines, locations, and protagonists, which is initially confusing; it all comes together beautifully in the end, though. Themes of immigration, motherhood, and addiction. I'll watch for more by Garcia in the future. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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rmaclean4
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Started as a collection of stories and then was developed into a novel. It shows the seams of that transition. Strong debut novel and I will be interested in what the author writes next. 3 🌟

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marleed
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I finished this book frustrated that my opinion was a so-so because my expectations were high. I then researched the author and learned why and how she wrote this story. I essentially reread the book and it became a pick. So I‘d recommend doing a bit of author research before falling into this one.

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Melismatic
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This is beautifully written, heartfelt, filled with intensity and joy afraid of exploring trauma. Women are not a monolith — perspective colors everything.

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Chelsea.Poole
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A novel, but more like a collection of short stories, which would have been confusing at first but I read some reviews before starting this, which prepared me for the format. The storyline moves back and forth through time and from different perspectives, all women, interconnected. We don‘t find out exactly how things are connected right off the bat which makes it difficult to orient in the story. A very strong sense of place and lyrical writing.

Tamra I like sense of place - stacked! 3y
ErikasMindfulShelf Loved it! 3y
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KimM
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Vacation 2021. Cabo.

This one was just too depressing. #page158subscription @sudalu

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Hooked_on_books
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This non-linear novel explores the women of 2 different families as they move through life and the echoes of violence and tragedy reverberate. I thought it was great but I understand why the structure isn‘t working for everyone. Ultimately, I felt it came together in a lovely way.

BookNightOwl I love to hear when somebody loves a book that I didn't enjoy. Especially with a book with such a beautiful cover lol. 3y
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Leftcoastzen
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I was in Barnes & Noble (Yay)and this post has nothing to do with the content of these titles, but is anyone else sick of this cover design ? Did they fire the art department? Swoopy colors & the same typeface over and over? Sheesh!

vivastory Yes, I am really tired of this design. Lazy abstract that just blends from one to the other. 3y
Leftcoastzen Glad I‘m not alone, come on , art departments! 3y
vivastory Also, enough with the logos (read with jenna, netflix series etc) that are etched into the dustjackets & can't be removed like the stickers could! 3y
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vivastory @Leftcoastzen Def not alone. Even an author who used to be well known for his great cover designs-Grady Hendrix. I've been disappointed in his recent designs. (Southern Book Club Guide & the design for his upcoming book Final Girl Support Club) 3y
Lesanne Yes, and I‘m also tired of the ones showing a woman standing with her back towards the viewer, usually titled “The So-and-So‘s Wife/Daughter/Sister/Cousin” 3y
Leftcoastzen @Lesanne definitely tired of that one too! 3y
reading_rainbow Totally agreed 3y
Leftcoastzen @vivastory yes ! I expect more from Grady as well. 3y
AlaMich @Lesanne I categorically refuse to read a book if the cover art is a woman with her back to the reader. It‘s enough already! 3y
Megabooks Yes!!! I hate it!!! @BarbaraBB 3y
BarbaraBB Glad you mention it. I am honestly offended by covers like these. We are adults. We read books. Please take us seriously. And the authors who wrote these books. So many covers today make the books look like fluffy kids lit. In primary colors. And capital fonts. Please. Thank you for the tag @Megabooks I can go on and on about this subject as you know 😂 3y
jessjess Ugh definitely over the abstract art and bold type cover trend 3y
Lesanne @AlaMich Lol, me too!!! 😆 3y
Megabooks Of course you articulated better than I did @barbarabb 💜 3y
dylanisreading Definitely don't care for them. My eyes usually skip over these kinds of covers now. 3y
Tamra You‘re right - that‘s the trend. I hadn‘t put it together until your post. 3y
Leftcoastzen @Bianca yes , exactly! When they over use a style on book covers your eyes just drift past them. 3y
Reggie Lolol I enjoyed this thread immensely. 3y
Leftcoastzen @Reggie Thx! I was hoping to spark a conversation. 3y
marleed I‘m a week late but just read this thread. The abstract profile of women‘s faces piled atop one another is driving me crazy. And I just went through my books and donated almost every book with the back of a (or three) woman as it‘s cover - drives me bonkers. My intent was to whittle down based on my star rating but tired uncreative jacket art was big for me, too. 3y
Leftcoastzen @marleed thanks for weighing in! I hope someone in the publishing houses start to get this “style “ is getting tiresome.😀 3y
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BookNightOwl
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Bailedbailed

Oh my goodness... don't even know how to start this. I felt like this book was all over the place with all the different timelines. Couldn't connect with any of the characters or really enjoy any of the storylines because I felt like there wasn't a beginning thought and an end thought with the stories. I really wanted to like this because I seen it advertised everywhere. Was just not for me. D

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Sapphire
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This book made me weep. My life is so different from the women in these stories. Yet my pain is not. We are force. We are more than we think. Beautiful prose, easy read. Emotional truth.

Sapphire Mothers and daughters 4y
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Sapphire
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“But no mother on the outside could possibly know what it was to face a truth like the one she‘d been presented with: that it was her own love killing her daughter”

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Megabooks
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If I had gone in understanding that this was more an interconnected collection of short stories, I would‘ve enjoyed it more. There‘s so much to unpack here - addiction, deportation, immigration, cancer, sexual assault, Bautista in Cuba plus time in Mexico and El Salvador. Add in that it covers the 20th and 21st centuries, it just really is too much to form a cohesive narrative in under 300 pages!! I had a hard time orienting myself ⬇️

Megabooks ⬆️ when the chapter changed and suddenly you were following a different character, time, country, or all three!! Multiple narrators would‘ve helped the #audiobook immensely! 4y
Cinfhen I do like interconnected stories so maybe #BorrowNotBuy for me 💜Thanks, Meg! 4y
Megabooks @Cinfhen yeah, it was sold as a novel, but in the author interview AT THE END, she said it started as short stories and I was all...oooo that makes sense because it‘s not really a novel!! 4y
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BarbaraBB Too bad. I had high hopes but this sounds a bit messy 4y
vivastory I do really love interconnected short stories, but this one seems to be a bit too ambitious! Thanks for tagging me 4y
TrishB Hubby brought this for me a couple of weeks ago, but I‘m not a fan of short stories. 4y
Megabooks @BarbaraBB it was just a lot to unpack. I think multiple narrators or a narrator who made each character more distinctive would‘ve helped. 4y
Megabooks @TrishB I think it will work better as a print book. Let me fill you in a little and see if orienting you will help. It starts in Cuba in a cigar factory. It‘s interesting but this doesn‘t connect for quite awhile. The main characters are introduced in the next chapter. Jeanette is an addict and the daughter of a Cuban immigrant in Miami. Jeanette‘s next door neighbor is swept up in an immigration raid, and Jeanette takes in her daughter ⬇️ (edited) 4y
Megabooks @TrishB Ana for the night. Most of the stories follow Jeanette, her mother Carmen or Ana as they navigate the complicated life of immigration/being an immigrant. The Ana stories are interesting, but I think it would‘ve felt more like a novel if the main action had just centered around Jeanette and Carmen. I think it will be easier to understand the time and perspective jumps as a print book compared to how they did the audiobook. (edited) 4y
Megabooks @vivastory @BarbaraBB see what I wrote to Trish ⬆️ since you two read in print, I think the perspective shifts will be easier to follow if you decide to read this. I‘m interested to see what Trish thinks of the print book. @Cinfhen since they didn‘t use multiple narrators, the audiobook can be a bit hard to follow. Definitely glad I borrowed it. 👍🏻 4y
Cinfhen Is it similar to this one 4y
Cinfhen Because your description above sounds great and it reminded me of Evaristo 4y
BarbaraBB Thanks for explaining. I think I let it be. #somanybookssolittletime 4y
TrishB Thank you ♥️ that hasn‘t totally put me off anyway! 4y
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AvidReader25
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Mehso-so

This multi-generational story follows Cuban women who face abuse, deportation, addiction, etc. It switches POVs & jumps from the 19th to 21st centuries. It was hard to follow at times, but you slowly see the lives of the women weaving together. It feels like a short story collection & I enjoyed some sections more than others. The theme broken women & what they must do to survive. The writing is beautiful & I look forward to more from the author.

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LatrelWhite
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🎧Started this today so far so good!

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