Publishers WeeklyĪ brilliant and multilayered tale.

Epic and frenetic, it traces the physical and spiritual ties that bind its characters to each other and to the earth. Whirling with witchcraft and sensuality, the latest novel by Hopkinson is a globe-spanning, time-traveling spiritual odyssey.… The novel has a genuine vitality and generosity. We do not so much read The Salt Roads, as we are inhabited by it.' -Sandra Jackson-Opoku, author of The River Where Blood Is Born She chants power onto these pages, a ritual act of possession. She grafts voice onto silences, mythologizing the commonplace and defrocking the grandiose. 'With her conjurer’s art, with daring and delightful audacity, Nalo Hopkinson reaches into the well of history. Rollicking, sensual … Required reading … one of science fiction’s most inventive and brilliant writers. ' latest offering is … fantastic, in every sense of the word.… With her highly praised lyrical style, it’s like a golden spoon filled not with honey, but with bitters-and the effect is wonderfully disquieting.… The Salt Roads should speak to us all.' - The Globe and Mail (Toronto) A tour de force from one of our most striking new voices in fiction. Sexy, disturbing, touching, wildly comic. An electrifying bravura performance by one of our most important writers.' -Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ' The Salt Roads should be required reading for the next century. The Washington Post Book WorldĪn important new writer. Hopkinson’s prose is vivid and immediate. Everything is possible in her imagination.” - Science Fiction Chronicle Read more “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 . . . Entertaining, challenging, and alluring, Skin Folk is not to be missed. With works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, this story collection illustrates why Hopkinson received the John W. An electrifying, bravura performance by one of our most important writers.” -Junot Díaz “Should be required reading for the next century. 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. 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).Įxperience 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.

Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson