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Hispanic Heritage Month Book Club Discussion.
In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt.
From 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers, from Cuba to Mexico, Gabriela Garcia's Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals—personal and political, self-inflicted and those done by others—that have shaped the lives of these extraordinary women.
*10 copies of this title are free to claim at the Thompson library's front desk courtesy of CALS' Outreach/Communications team!*
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Society & Culture | Literature & Language |
TAGS: | THOMPSON | HispanicHeritageMonth |
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