In all of her works, Nalo Hopkinson has helped expand the current definition of science fiction and fantasy and has brought a new, distinct voice to literature. Hopkinson has a Masters of Arts degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and now teaches writing at various programs around the world.
Memorial Award as well as a nomination for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2001. Dick Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in 2003, the Locus Award for Best New Writer, the James R. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for an Emerging Writer, the Philip K. The list of awards that Nalo Hopkinson has received is formidable. Hopkinson is the daughter of Guyanese poet Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson. Her novels and short stories often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling. Nalo Hopkinson (born December 20, 1960) is a Jamaican-born writer and editor who lived in several Caribbean countries and the United States before settling in Canada in 1975. Her second novel, the New York Times Notable Book Midnight Robber, was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Philip K. Campbell Award winner Nalo Hopkinson's first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. This is a shame, because each mortal character's life could have made a fine, full, fascinating novel by itself. This is because The Salt Roads is sketchy, its three storylines compressed the novel reads more like three novellas incompletely braided. However, it's not clear why Ezili becomes entangled with Jeanne Duval. Mary, the Virgin Mary, and the goddesses of Africa.
The novel presents a reasonable, though undeveloped, connection between Meritet/St. Mary of Egypt.Įzili becomes entangled with Mer because the midwife's prayers helped draw her into the mortal world.
Her consciousness alternates among the bodies/minds of several women throughout time, but she resides mostly in three women: Mer, an Afro-Caribbean slave woman/midwife Jeanne Duval, Afro-French lover of decadent Paris poet Charles Baudelaire and Meritet, the Greek-Nubian slave/prostitute known to history as St. Grief-powered prayers draw Ezili into the physical world, where she finds herself trapped by her lost memories and by the spiritual effects of the widespread evil of slavery. In beautiful prose, Nalo Hopkinson's The Salt Roads tells how Ezili, the African goddess of love, becomes entangled in the lives of three women.
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