![]() They are tied together in this story not only in sharing a cultural and racial heritage, and by the experience of not having ownership over their own bodies-whether in a formal sense in the case of Thaïs and Mer, or due to economic necessity, in the case of Jeanne. The principal characters are: Mer, an enslaved woman who is a healer and worker on a sugar cane plantation on Saint Domingue during the early stages of the slave rebellion of the late 18th century Jeanne Duval, the Creole mistress of 19th century French decadent poet Charles Baudelaire and Thaïs (or Meritet) a sex worker in early Christian-era Alexandria, who in this story inadvertently becomes Saint Mary of Egypt (combining the legends of two early desert saints). ![]() ![]() The Salt Roads is a beautiful, brutal, crystalline and ambiguous novel tracing the lives of three women of the African diaspora and one mystical spirit. ![]()
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