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The Salt Roads

Nalo Hopkinson

  • 394 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2003
  • 3 editions
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1 About this book

Brought into being by the lamentations of three Caribbean slave women, a powerful deity begins a search to discover herself and inhabits the minds of three women throughout history.

Good for readers who want: fantasy and time travel.

  • Fantasy
  • Caribbean area
  • Fantasy, historical
  • Goddesses
  • Time travel
  • Women
  • Prostitutes
  • France

2 About Nalo Hopkinson

Born 1960

Nalo Hopkinson (born 20 December 1960) is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. Her novels – Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Midnight Robber (2000), The Salt Roads (2003), The New Moon's Arms (2007) – and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk (2001) often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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