![]() There’s a dash of Caribbean voodoo, fourth century Christian pilgrimages, and smoky visions emerging out of a pot of surprising liquids. I love the kind of historical fiction that reimagines and brings women from the past alive and into the spotlight, and Hopkinson does this so well, but she also refuses to stay within the bounds of realist historical fiction. It’s an ambitious, wide-reaching novel that is at once historical, spiritual, magical, and fantastical. I’ve read Caribbean-born and raised, current Torontonian Hopkinson’s first and most recent books and enjoyed both, but I really loved The Salt Roads. My second thought: “Holy crap, there’s lesbian sex twice in the first fifteen pages-why doesn’t the blurb for this book make it clear that’s it’s queer?” ![]() My first thought after beginning to read The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson was “Why did it take me so long to read this book? It’s SO AWESOME.” ![]()
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