ONLINE Speculative Fiction Book Club: The Salt Roads

ONLINE Speculative Fiction Book Discussion
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
Tuesday September 29 | 7 PM

This title is available as an ebook and digital audiobook on Hoopla!

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Nalo Hopkinson's third novel invokes the goddess of love in the name of redemption  Hopkinson's time-traveling, genre-spanning novel weaves a common thread of spiritualism and hope through three intertwined stories of women possessed by Ezili, the goddess of love, as she inspires, inhabits, and guides them through trying personal and historical moments. Jeanne Duval is a talented entertainer suffering from the ravages of a sexually transmitted disease; Mer is a slave and talented doctor who bears witness as Saint Domingue throws off the yoke of colonial rule in the early nineteenth century; and Meritet is a woman of the night who finds religion her own way. Though the three are separated by many miles and centuries, a powerful bond draws them together. Epic, wrenching, and passionate, The Salt Roads is laced with graceful, lyrical prose. Hopkinson has crafted a one-of-a-kind novel that spans hundreds of years and multiple countries to tell a mystical, heartrending story of self-worth, respect, and salvation.

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