A review by mikime
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson

4.0

This novel spans across centuries and continents, as a powerful, ancient, possibly divine spirit inhabits and cohabits with different women in different times and places, empowering them, pushing them to fight with unexpected strength for themselves and their friends and loved ones, against oppression, enslavement, violence, racism, misogyny. The spirit herself also ends up having to fight to survive against another dark spirit, as the old ways are left behind, and new ways and new hopes emerge. Unexpectedly captivating, surprising through and through.