The Salt Roads

From the S FWA Grand Master, a “sexy, disturbing, touching, wildly comic . . . tour de force” that blends fantasy, women’s history, and slavery ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review).   In 1804, shortly before the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue is renamed Haiti, a group of women gather to bury a stillborn baby. Led by a lesbian healer and midwife named Mer, the women’s lamentations inadvertently release the dead infant’s “unused vitality” to draw Ezili—the Afro-Caribbean godd