The Salt Roads

Nalo Hopkinson · first published 2003 · ISBN 9780446533027

The African water goddess Lasirén moves through time, possessing and guiding three women toward their own liberation. Mer is an enslaved healer in 18th-century Haiti fighting to keep her people's spiritual connection alive. Jeanne Duval is a Black woman in 1840s Paris navigating economics and desire and the gaze of men like Charles Baudelaire. Thais is a prostitute in 4th-century Alexandria choosing spiritual freedom. The salt roads connect them, pathways traced in sweat and tears.