A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. 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. A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers, the legacy of the memories they carry, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America’s most tangled, honest, human roots. An instant New York Times bestseller and winner of both the Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Fiction Award and She Reads Best of 2021 Award. Named a "Best Book of the Year" by The Boston Globe, Marie Claire, She Reads, Harper’s Bazaar and more.

Gabriela Garcia's fiction and poems have been published widely in Best American Poetry, Tin House, Zyzzyva, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and a Steinbeck Fellowship from San Jose State University. The daughter of immigrants from Cuba and Mexico, she worked as a feminist and migrant rights organizer for a decade before pursuing an MFA in fiction from Purdue. She also holds a B.A. in Sociology and Media Studies from Fordham University and lives in the Bay Area.

Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta is a full professor at the City University of New York-BCC. Her poetry collection, Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere, was a 2020 finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. She is the editor of Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity (Routledge) and her creative work is in The Baffler, Best American Poetry, In Full Color: A Collection of Stories by Women of Color, Voices de la Luna, The Lauryn Hill Reader and many more. Her scholarly work can be found in The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature, African American Women’s Language, The Handbook of Latinos and Education, Diálogo, The Kenyon Review, and VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and more. She received her Ph.D. in English—Latinx literature, from the University of Texas at San Antonio