![]() ![]() Pieces of Jeanette’s family’s story also came to me in different ways, like once, on a trip to Cuba, when I visited a museum exhibit that featured letters from the author Victor Hugo to Cuban independence fighters and workers in the 19th century. ![]() And some of that writing developed into the thread of the novel that is about Gloria and Ana, a Salvadoran mother and daughter who are neighbors to Jeanette, a character whose family immigrated from Cuba in a very different manner. I started writing these little snippets, observations. I visited a couple of the family detention centers that were cropping up around the country, growing in size each day as deportations ramped up across the country. Some of it came to me years ago when I was working as an organizer primarily focused on deportation defense work. Different threads of Of Women and Salt came to me at different times. ![]()
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