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The Salt Roads
Published 2003 by Warner Books · 394 pages
Nebula · 2004
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4 award entries · 3 books · 0 wins · 2001–2008
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Synopsis
Three women across centuries and continents — a slave in colonial Saint-Domingue, the real-life poet Jeanne Duval in 1840s Paris, and a fourth-century prostitute-turned-saint in the Middle East — are connected by the spirit of Ezili, a goddess born from their pain and longing for freedom.
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