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Of Women and Salt
by Gabriela Garcia
Disappointment (12/28/2020)
I feel really badly about having asked for this book - I spent 7 years of my teen years living in Cuba so I was looking forward to seeing what this author had to say. It was most disappointing and disjointed and seemed to go nowhere, but I kept reading thinking there had to be a theme of some sort. Her descriptions of life in Cuba were quite accurate to a point. She was quick to tell horrible tales of the Batista era, but had little to say of what happened afterwards when things got even worse under Castro.
Parts were very vague - how is anyone to know who Cecilia Valdez is? The ending was sweet but by then I really didn't care how it ended.
I dislike having to write such a negative review, but there was truly nothing I liked about this book - not even the writing.
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