Plan an incredible book club for Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia. If you need questions on how to do this, you are in the right literary site. Feel free to use these questions!
I will recommend you to pick this book if you are planning a book club with your friends! In my expertise as a Literature Graduate, avid reader, and book club enthusiast, I can guaranteed that you will have headed and enriching conversations if you asked these questions when you choose Of Women and Salt for your book club!
Of Women and Salt covers multiple topics and themes that will make you want to talk about it for ours. The novel covers part of the colonial era n Latin America, includes the relationship of mothers and daughters, how to stay alive, and how control and power play and important role in relationships. You can even discuss motherhood and how sacrifice looks for mothers.
Remember when running your book club to have activities, drinks and interactive questions. If you can, investigate further about the topics mentioned above when driving the discussion, so let’s have a great book club!
What to ask about Of Women and Salt?
Remember that what matters the most is to have your participants talking, so ask their opinion about different book related topics:
- What do you know about the colonization process in America Latina and Ibero America? And how that affected the development of those counties?
- Describe how being separated from your daughter or sons would make you feel. How do you think Gloria as a mother felt?
- Based on that question, would you put your children through this separation or this experience of being in an immigrant jail? Do you think this is an acceptable practice for families? Why is this acceptable for immigrants but not for your own offspring?
- Why exactly is that people emigrate to another country? Do you think that if they had it easy would have leave a place that rejects their existence?
- Gloria said: “The telenovelas stars are all blonde, and thin and rich, but must of us look like the maidens and witch doctors and farm peasants on these shows”. Taking this in consideration, how is the media portraying Latinx people or immigrants in general? Isn’t the media part of the problem by spreading prejudice?
Depending on our experiences, we read each book in different ways, so it is normal to see different opinions and reactions. Now, start asking the hard questions:
- What is the role played by the media regarding immigration in the States? Based your answer on what you get from the news.
- How much about Cuba did you know before this book? Are we like the German tourist who fears and was suspicious about everybody because they all wanted to “rob” him?
- Maria Isabel saw marriage like an escape to a better life at the beginning of the story, why do you think that change once married??
- Why was Maria’s husband killed? What traits make him so dangerous for the crown to kill him?
- Is it justifiable what Dolores did of killing her husband as the only way out of violence?
Let’s get technical?
- When Gloria was in a “detention center,” she got a bit obsessed with a book of birds. What is the meaning of these birds in the novel?
- What is control? How is control portrayed in the book? When you analyze the relationship between characters, who had the control and why? (Consider relationships with: drugs, husbands and wives, mothers and sisters, money, and the governments)
- Is it fair for Carmen to judge her mother Dolores for the crime? What moved Carmen to go away? Fear? Judgment? Her love of her violent father? Or the need of a better life?
- Based on the previews question, what is the motivation of Carmen to hide or ignored what her husband did to Jeanette? Would this behavior explain better why she left Cuba?
- What is the difference between Carmen and Dolores on how they handle their marriages?
- How is the relationship between men and women portrayed in the novel? Who has the power and why? Are there cultural factors?
There are always many books to pick from when organizing your book clubs. If you audience is open and understands better political and social problems, this is a great book to expand on their knowledge and even help those who do not know much about it.
I will recommend this for your book club, and I am sure you will to! Be open to new stories, to change the world! Pursuit knowledge and aim to change the world! Also, isn’t the cover beautiful? Imagine it on your coffee table! It will look beautiful!
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