Skin Folk and The Salt Roads
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
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Skin Folk and The Salt Roads
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
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Skin Folk and The Salt Roads

Skin Folk and The Salt Roads

by Nalo Hopkinson
Skin Folk and The Salt Roads

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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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781504066518
Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Publication date: 12/22/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 652
File size: 9 MB

About the Author

Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born Canadian whose taproots extend to Trinidad and Guyana. She has published numerous novels and short stories and occasionally edits anthologies. Her writing has received the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Locus Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, and the Andre Norton Award. Hopkinson is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. She has taught numerous times at both the Clarion Writers' Workshop and the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Hopkinson's short story collection Falling in Love With Hominids will appear in 2015.
<DIV><B>Nalo Hopkinson</B> was born in Jamaica and has lived in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. The daughter of a poet/playwright and a library technician, she has won numerous awards including the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award, and Canada's Sunburst Award for literature of the fantastic. Her award-winning short fiction collection <I>Skin Folk</I> was selected for the 2002 <I>New York Times</I> Summer Reading List and was one of the <I>New York Times</I> Best Books of the Year. Hopkinson is also the author of <I>The New Moon's Arms, The Salt Roads, Midnight Robber,</I> and <I>Brown Girl in the Ring</I>. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, and splits her time between California, USA, and Toronto, Canada.</DIV>
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