$16 at Amazon How does your poetry influence your fiction? For example, in this book, the chapter that’s set in the detention center and a lot of the stuff around immigration developed from the work I was doing with women in detention. How does your background as an organizer influence your writing?Ī lot of the stuff I was organizing around shows up in my writing because those are the things that I’m interested in and thinking about frequently. caught up with the author about her interest in nonlinear storytelling, the complexities of Latinx immigration narratives, and how to write about male violence without centering violent men. The intergenerational narrative tackles immigration, addiction, and sexual trauma with ambition and a poetic voice. The novel traces a broad arc across time and distance, zigzagging from a cigar factory in 19th-century Cuba to early 2000s Miami to a detention center in Texas in 2014. It’s no surprise, then, that Of Women and Salt, her debut novel, was so highly anticipated it was praised by Roxane Gay for its “precision and generosity and beauty,” and described as a “fierce and powerful debut” by Teresa Marie Mailhot. Gabriela Garcia’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Tin House, Zyzzyva, and the Iowa Review, and she’s been anthologized in The Best American Poetry in 2019.
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