By Nalo Hopkinson
A landmark paintings via a super younger writer, THE SALT ROADS transports readers throughout centuries and civilizations because it fearlessly explores the relationships ladies have with their fans, their humans, and the divine. Jeanne Duval, the ginger-colored entertainer, struggles along with her lover poet Charles Baudelaire...Mer, plantation slave and health practitioner, either hungers for and dreads liberation...and Thais, a dark-skinned attractiveness from Alexandria, is impelled to hunt a wonderful revelation-as Ezili, a being born of wish, unites all of them. Interweaving acts of brutality with passionate unions of spirit and flesh, this can be a narrative that shocks, entertains, and dazzles-from an award-winning author who dares to redefine the paintings of storytelling.
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