Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

April 2021

OF WOMEN AND SALT by Gabriela Garcia looks at the lives of two families of women, from the days of the cigar factories in 19th-century Cuba to modern-day Miami, with a detour to migrant detention centers sheltering refugees coming from Mexico. Gabriela carefully constructs and brings together a number of fractured story threads, and delivers some powerful storytelling. And she accomplishes this in 204 pages; there is not even one bloated page.

Read more »

Week of April 26, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of April 26th include THE SENTINEL, the 25th entry in the Jack Reacher series and the first collaboration between Lee Child and his brother, Andrew Child, whose protagonist ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee --- but there’s nothing pleasant about the place; THE LAW OF INNOCENCE, a heart-stopping thriller from Michael Connelly, in which Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller must defend himself against murder charges; HELLO, SUMMER, the latest book from the Queen of the Beach Reads, Mary Kay Andrews, which revolves around small town scandals and big-time secrets; FRIENDS AND STRANGERS by J. Courtney Sullivan, an insightful and hilarious novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life; and THE CHIFFON TRENCHES, a deeply revealing memoir by legendary style icon André Leon Talley that captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments.

Read more »

Week of April 19, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of April 19th include Kiley Reid's SUCH A FUN AGE, a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young Black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both; WARHOL by esteemed art critic Adam Gopnik, the definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his --- or any --- age; THE SILENT WIFE; Karin Slaughter’s 10th novel featuring GBI investigator Will Trent, which delves into a previously untold chapter of medical examiner (and Will’s love interest) Sara Linton’s personal history; and 108 STITCHES, in which former New York Mets pitcher and Emmy-nominated broadcaster Ron Darling offers his own take on the "six degrees of separation" game and knits together a collection of wild, wise and wistful stories reflecting the full arc of a life in and around our national pastime.

Read more »

Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. She is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother, a Cuban immigrant named Carmen, and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, Carmen must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt.

Read more »

Kelly Mustian, author of The Girls in the Stilt House

Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her hard life on the swamp and her harsh father. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father.

Read more »