The 12 intertwined stories transport us through time and place, providing glimpses into different moments not only in family histories but in women’s individual life-stories. The narrative builds through different voices, tenses, and tones.
She didn’t have the vocabulary to say, I want to know who I am, so I need to know who you’ve been.” “Maybe if I had a way of seeing all the past, all the paths, I’d have some answer as to why: Why did our lives turn out this way?” Early on, we learn that Jeanette, too, has wanted this connection but has been unable to ask: “ven as a child, Jeanette understood that another narrative she couldn’t access had shaped her life. “Maybe there are forces neither of us examined,” she says. The novel opens, by way of preface, with Carmen appealing to her daughter Jeanette to get sober so they can actually start communicating with one another.
IN HER WRENCHING DEBUT novel-in-stories, Of Women and Salt, Gabriela Garcia meticulously weaves a mesh of parallels between Latinx mothers and daughters.
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