This is a shame, because each mortal character's life could have made a fine, full, fascinating novel by itself. This is because The Salt Roads is sketchy, its three storylines compressed the novel reads more like three novellas incompletely braided. However, it's not clear why Ezili becomes entangled with Jeanne Duval. Mary, the Virgin Mary, and the goddesses of Africa. The novel presents a reasonable, though undeveloped, connection between Meritet/St. Mary of Egypt.Įzili becomes entangled with Mer because the midwife's prayers helped draw her into the mortal world. Her consciousness alternates among the bodies/minds of several women throughout time, but she resides mostly in three women: Mer, an Afro-Caribbean slave woman/midwife Jeanne Duval, Afro-French lover of decadent Paris poet Charles Baudelaire and Meritet, the Greek-Nubian slave/prostitute known to history as St. Grief-powered prayers draw Ezili into the physical world, where she finds herself trapped by her lost memories and by the spiritual effects of the widespread evil of slavery. In beautiful prose, Nalo Hopkinson's The Salt Roads tells how Ezili, the African goddess of love, becomes entangled in the lives of three women.
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