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The Salt Roads

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.

About the Author

Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican Canadian speculative fiction novelist and short story writer.

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