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End-of-the-Year Contest 2021

Congratulations to the winners of our 2021 End-of-the-Year Contest! One Grand Prize winner received all 44 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2021, while 11 others won a selection of four of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2021's Bets On books.

Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, 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.

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.

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.

Week of January 3, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of January 3rd include THE COAST-TO-COAST MURDERS, an intense thriller from James Patterson and J.D. Barker about a detective and FBI agent who join forces on what seems like an open-and-shut case --- but a new rash of killings sends them on a pulse-pounding race against time; THE PUSH by first-time novelist Ashley Audrain, a tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for --- and everything she feared; Gabriela Garcia's OF WOMEN AND SALT, 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; and THE NATURE OF FRAGILE THINGS, a gripping novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, from the acclaimed author of THE LAST YEAR OF THE WAR and AS BRIGHT AS HEAVEN.

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