[image description: the cover of The Salt Roads. It features a painting of a black woman wearing a red-and-white striped dress. She is lifting the ample skirt. Her hair is up, and she has feathers in it. In the background is a white man in a suit and a top hat. He is pulling back red curtains. Between them is a chamber pot with yellow lines emanating from it. End description.]

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The Salt Roads, Nalo Hopkinson, Warner, 2003.

“In beautiful prose, Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads tells how Ezili, the African goddess of love, becomes entangled in the lives of three women. Grief-powered prayers draw Ezili into the physical world, where she finds herself trapped by her lost memories and by the spiritual effects of the widespread evil of slavery. Her consciousness alternates among the bodies/minds of several women throughout time, but she resides mostly in three women: Mer, an Afro-Caribbean slave woman/midwife; Jeanne Duval, Afro-French lover of decadent Paris poet Charles Baudelaire; and Meritet, the Greek-Nubian slave/prostitute known to history as St. Mary of Egypt.” — from Amazon.com’s review

Reviews:

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GLBT Fantasy Fiction Resources

The SF Site

Strange Horizons

…and more

Also reviewed at the Lesbrary.

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