
Her debut novel, Of Women and Salt(March 2021, Flatiron Books), combines much of her experience in Cuba. Garcia, who also writes poetry and other fiction, grew up traveling frequently to Cuba, which allowed her to see the country from the perspective of those who left, as well as those who chose to remain. The daughter of a single mother, a Cuban immigrant, she was fascinated by the lives of women navigating patriarchal cultures and the relationships formed among them: mothers and daughters, sisters, friends. As a child growing up in Miami, writer Gabriela Garcia was surrounded by women.
