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The Salt Roads, by Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson's The Salt Roads, now being re-released by Open Road Media, reads like a blend of novel and poem. Over the course of the book we meet three women who have been touched by the influence of Ezili. Mer is a slave in Haiti sometime before the revolution in 1789. Lemer is a dancer in 1840s Paris and the mistress of Charles Baudelaire. Meritet is a prostitute in third century Alexandria. Ezili is caught between them. As Hopkinson spins out their stories, we learn more about how all four of these (for lack of a better word) entities are connected across time and space...
Read the rest of my review at Summer Reading Project.
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