Review of 'The Salt Roads' by Nalo Hopkinson

In attractive prose, Nalo Hopkinson's The saline Roads notifies how Ezili, the African goddess of love, becomes entangled in the inhabits of three women. Grief-powered prayers draw Ezili into the personal world, where she finds herself tricked by her lost memories and by the religious consequences of the widespread bad of slavery. Her consciousness alternates amidst the bodies/minds of some women all through time, but she resides mostly in three women: Mer, an Afro-Caribbean slave woman/midwife; Jeanne Duval, Afro-French admirer of decadent Paris bard Charles Baudelaire; and Meritet, the Greek-Nubian slave/prostitute renowned to annals ...