Gabriela Garcia, OF WOMEN AND SALT

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Gabriela Garcia joins Zibby to talk about her debut novel, Of Women and Salt, which was a Good Morning America pick for April. The two discuss the variety of mother-daughter dynamics the book captures, why Gabriela wanted to portray immigrant characters in a particular way, and the importance of setting the story in her hometown of Miami.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
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0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:32.9	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:40.5	Gabriela Garcia is the author of Women and Salt. Her fiction and poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Tin House, Zizia,
0:46.9	Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, the Cincinnati Review, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere.
0:52.7	She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers'
0:54.8	Award, a Steinbeck Fellowship, and Residencies and Fellowships from Breadlove, Sarah Bandy Books,
1:00.6	Lighthouse Works, the Keller Estate, and the community of writers at Squab Valley. She has an MFA
1:05.6	and fiction from Purdue University where she also taught creative writing. The daughter of
1:10.0	immigrants from Cuba and
1:11.3	Mexico.
1:12.3	Gabriela was raised in Miami and currently lives in the Bay Area.
1:15.7	In her past life, she worked in music, magazines, technology, and feminist and immigrant
1:20.4	rights organizing.
1:21.9	Welcome, Gabriella.
1:23.1	Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books to Discuss of Women
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