6/1/2023 0 Comments Of women and salt reviewAt first, I was sure that Maria Isabel, from 1866, would be my favorite, speaking across generations with her passion for literacy (and her baby named Cecilia). Just twelve chapters, many of which read like stand-alone short stories, Of Women and Salt is mostly a world of Cuban and Cuban-American women. In this beautiful book, women endure class, race and gender oppression, violence, marginalization, and cultural displacement, and they fight back, guided by their children, mothers, and grandmothers-and, delightfully, by another book. I can’t think of any voices more attuned to this moment than those that populate Gabriela Garcia’s new novel, Of Women and Salt. In a moment of transformation like this, good books, true books, often become guides and illuminators. Activists, particularly young women of color and their allies, have exhibited a relentless drive for change, a fierce determination to end systemic racism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. Our community in the Twin Cities has been engaged for nearly a year in the uprising that followed the murder of George Floyd-an uprising that keeps rising in wave after wave.
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