A landmark work by a brilliant young author, The Salt Roads transports readers across centuries and civilizations as it fearlessly explores the relationships women have with their lovers, their people, and the divine. Je...A landmark work by a brilliant young author, The Salt Roads transports readers across centuries and civilizations as it fearlessly explores the relationships women have with their lovers, their people, and the divine. Jeanne duval, the ginger-colored entertainer, struggles with her lover poet charles baudelaire.mer, plantation slave and doctor, both hungers for and dreads liberation.and thais, a dark-skinned beauty from alexandria, is impelled to seek a glorious revelation-as ezili, a being born of hope, unites them all.