Deities or Iwas play a key role in this novel

In beautiful prose, Nalo Hopkinson in Salt Roads tells Ezili, the African goddess of love, entangled in the lives of three women. Grief power of prayer to draw Ezili in the physical world, where she feels trapped lost memories and spiritual effects of a wide scourge of slavery (Braudel Pp. 187). Her mind alternate between bodies / minds of many women at all times, but it lives mainly in three women: Mer, Afro-Caribbean slave / midwife, Jeanne Duval, the Afro-French fan of the decadent poet Charles Baudelaire's Paris and Meritet, Greek-Nubian slaves / prostitutes known to history as St. Mary of Egypt.

Ezili confused with Mer because prayer midwife helped draw her into mortal world. The novel represents a reasonable, albeit undeveloped, the relationship between Meritet / St. Mary, the Virgin Mary and goddess in Africa. Nevertheless, it is not clear why Ezili confused with Jeanne Duval. This is because the salt roads is sketchy, her three storylines compressed the novel reads more like three novellas fully braided (Braudel Pp. 187). It's a shame, because the life of each mortal character could make a good, full, fascinating novel itself.

How do they impact the events of this novel?

John Campbell's first novel, winner Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the ring, won the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest and the Locus for best first novel (Braudel Pp. 187). Her second novel, The New York Times Notable Book Midnight Robber, was a finalist for Hugo, Nebula, " Philip K. Dick, James Tiptree Jr. Awards. Salt Roads is her third novel. - Cynthia Ward Whirling with witchcraft and sensuality, this latest novel by Hopkinson (Skin Folk; Midnight Robber) is a ball-spanning, time-traveling spiritual odyssey (Braudel Pp. 187). When three Caribbean slave women, headed by the dignified ...