{"product_id":"of-women-and-salt","title":"Of Women and Salt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom nineteenth-century cigar factories to present-day detention centres. From Cuba to the United States to Mexico, Gabriela Garcia’s\u003ci\u003e Of Women and Salt \u003c\/i\u003efollows Latina women of fierce pride, bound by the stories passed between them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Vivid details, visceral prose and strong willful women’ \u003c\/b\u003e– \u003cb\u003eAngie Cruz, author of \u003ci\u003eDominicana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive generations of women are 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.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1866, Cuba: María Isabel is the only woman employed at a cigar factory. These are dangerous political times, and as María begins to see marriage and motherhood as her only options, the sounds of war are approaching.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1959, Cuba: Dolores watches her husband make for the mountains in answer to Fidel Castro’s 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 Carmen’s world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2016, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf Women and Salt\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting story about the choices of mothers and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their truth despite those who wish to silence them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A multi-generational story that, at its heart, is a tribute to imperfect mother-daughter relationships and the enduring strength of women' – \u003ci\u003eStylist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Extraordinary . . . stunning’ \u003c\/b\u003e– \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Macneal, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Doll Factory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39615402278995,"sku":"9781529031553","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781529031553_1118c752-a7a0-4c95-af70-21b381548e06.jpg?v=1768454130","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/of-women-and-salt","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}