num_pages: 416
description: A landmark work by a brilliant young author, THE SALT ROADS transports readers across centuries and civilizations as it fearlessly explores the relationships women have with their lovers, their people, and the divine. Jeanne Duval, the ginger-colored entertainer, struggles with her lover poet Charles Baudelaire...Mer, plantation slave and doctor, both hungers for and dreads liberation...and Thais, a dark-skinned beauty from Alexandria, is impelled to seek a glorious revelation-as Ezili, a being born of hope, unites them all. Interweaving acts of brutality with passionate unions of spirit and flesh, this is a narrative that shocks, entertains, and dazzles-from an award-winning writer who dares to redefine the art of storytelling.A Nebula Award nominee -- A Locus Magazine recommended book
language: English
title: The Salt Roads
titlecomplete: The Salt Roads
genres: Audiobook, Historical Fiction, Historical, LGBT, Science Fiction, Queer, Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 2323
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Gaylactic Spectrum Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
category: Debut Fiction
publisher: Grand Central Publishing