I admire Danielle Evans’ prose so much so this means a lot. And the illustration is so, so beautiful. So much gratitude 🙏🏼🙏🏼 RP @janklownesbit Congratulations to @gabimgarcia whose debut novel Of Women and Salt is called "[A] beautifully evocative first novel” in a rave review by Danielle Evans in the New York Times Book Review. 🌺 “Jeanette is the book’s vibrant center. . . . This book is shaped, and given buoyancy, by Garcia’s sharp prose and by Jeanette’s ability to continue believing that the unexpected is possible, even as it repeatedly fails to materialize. . . . The chapters are sufficiently self-contained that the novel has the rhythm of a linked story collection, a structure that effectively emphasizes the disconnections and breaks that have shaped these characters. The connections that survive do so in compelling ways. . . . A lesser writer might have used the books’ symbolic weight to try to close some of the historical gaps or heal familial wounds. Instead, Garcia has the wisdom to let the books illuminate what can’t be recovered, no matter what can be inherited." 🌺 Of Women and Salt is the @gmabookclub pick of April and was named Amazon’s Featured Debut! 🌺 #ofwomenandsalt #gabrielagarcia