The Salt Roads
In 1804, shortly before the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue is renamed Haiti, a group of women gather to bury a stillborn baby. Led by a lesbian healer and midwife named Mer, the women’s lamentations inadvertently release the dead infant’s “unused vitality” to draw Ezili—the Afro-Caribbean goddess of sexual desire and love—into the physical world.
Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican Canadian speculative fiction novelist and short story writer.
Other publications from this author include:
- Falling in Love with Hominids (2015)
- Sister Mine (2013)
- Report from Planet Midnight (2012)
- The Chaos (2012)
- The New Moon’s Arms (2007)
- Skin Folk (2001)
- Midnight Robber (2000)
- Brown Girl in the Ring (1998)