Skin Folk and The Salt Roads — Nalo Hopkinson

Two monumental works from the SFWA Grand Master who is “preparing to take her place among the world's most celebrated black women writers” (Toronto Star).
 
Experience the rich imagination and genre-defying writing of multiple-award-winning author Nalo Hopkinson with this special volume, which includes both her epic novel spanning time and place, and her first collection of short fiction.
 
The Salt Roads
 
When an Afro-Caribbean goddess of sexual desire and love is manifested on a nineteenth-century Caribbean island, she explores her newfound powers by traveling through time and space, inhabiting a midwife, a mixed-race Parisian dancer, and an enslaved prostitute in ancient Alexandria.
 
“Should be required reading for the next century. An electrifying, bravura performance by one of our most important writers.” -- Junot Díaz
 
Skin Folk
 
With works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, this story collection illustrates why Hopkinson received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Entertaining, challenging, and alluring, Skin Folk is not to be missed.
 
“A marvelous display of Nalo Hopkinson's talents, skills and insights into the human conditions of life, especially of the fantastic realities of the Caribbean . . . Everything is possible in her imagination.” -- Science Fiction Chronicle