Out of print, but available for Kindle from Amazon. > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK <<<< This book could have been half as long without the utterly meaningless sex scenes._The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson Ebook Epub PDF cfz It doesn't! I want to know what's going to happen to the goddess in the main character's head! I want to hear about the slave rebellion! I can't do it any more. I'm on chapter 36 and everything has stopped so that the main character can experience a lengthy (over 10 minutes of run time) fingerblast with her never before mentioned brother because, I can only presume, the author realized the shock of all the previous sex would have worn off by now and thought incest would make things interesting again. Constantly dragging the story to a complete and utter halt to describe some graphic slimy sex act. I was fine with the incredibly graphic sex scenes at the beginning of the book because I felt like the author was trying to make a point that sex between women is real and gross and not some fetishized fantasy, but the sex scenes just go on and on and on and on. I was willing to put up with the confusing timeline and the way the narrative bounces randomly between characters making it hard to follow (presumably this is way less of a problem in text), but this book is so long. I was so interested in finding out where this story was going. And Meritet, inspired by Ezili, flees her enslavement and makes a pilgrimage to Egypt, where she becomes known as Saint Mary. Jeanne slowly succumbs to the ravages of age and syphilis when her lover is unable to escape his mother's control. Despite her magic, Mer suffers as a slave on a sugar plantation until Ezili plants the seeds of uprising in her mind. 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.Īs Ezili explores her newfound powers, she travels across time and space to inhabit the midwife's body - as well as those of Jeanne, a mixed-race dancer and the mistress of Charles Baudelaire living in 1880s Paris, and Meritet, an enslaved Greek-Nubian prostitute in ancient Alexandria.īound together by Ezili and "the salt road" of their sweat, blood, and tears, the three women struggle against a hostile world, unaware of the goddess's presence in their lives. In 1804, shortly before the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue is renamed Haiti, a group of women gather to bury a stillborn baby.
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