Of Women and Salt

 Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia, 207 pages.

Winding from Cuba to Miami, from 1866 to 2016, this book follows a line of mothers and daughters through terrible choices and awful men. Intersecting this family line are Gloria and Ana, a mother and daughter from El Salvador with a very different relationship to immigration. 

I thought this book had a really interesting premise and absolutely beautiful writing. Garcia's writing reminds me of poetry, and her images were often sharp and striking. However, I don't think that this book was long enough to deal very meaningful with the many women it introduced—a problem that is exacerbated by the fact that I believe around half of the book is instead following Gloria and Ana, giving them individually far more "screen time" than any member of the family that is meant to be the center of this family saga. I enjoyed this book, but I'm not sure it quite lived up to its own potential.