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Chapter 1

· The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Garcia, Gabriela. Of Women and Salt. Picador, 2021.

· The preface begins on page 1.

· Carmen addressed her daughter, Jeanette, to choose life and get sober.

· Carmen told Jeanette how happy she looked in her childhood photos.

· Carmen told her daughter she had secrets that she could share with Jeannette if Jeannette could get sober.

· Carmen said she cannot will the both of them to live and referred to holding her daughter’s sweating body each time she detoxed.

· Chapter 1, “Distant Not Beyond The Distant Mountain,” begins on page 3.

· This chapter begins from the perspective of Maria Isabel in Camaguey in 1866.

· Maria Isabel was the only female cigar roller in the factory.

· She had “breathed so much tobacco dust she developed regular nosebleeds” (4).

· Workers were not allowed to open windows wide because “sunlight would dry the cigars...

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