Of women and salt a novel6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() If the novel had continued to offer rich scenes like these, it would have been a success, but from this point on, it feels haphazardly stitched together. ![]() María Isabel works at a cigar factory, and, as the war blooms bright and bloody, she's pursued by the factory’s lector, who reads newspapers and Victor Hugo novels to the workers as they roll cigars. Then we're immediately swept away to Camagüey, Cuba, in 1866, right before the first Cuban war for independence from Spain, where we meet one of the women's ancestors. An affluent Cuban immigrant reckons with her daughter’s drug addiction and her own culpability in their self-destructive choices.Īs the book opens, it's 2018, and Carmen is writing in anguish to her daughter, Jeannette, begging her to find the will to live. ![]()
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