The salt roads book5/29/2023 A son of wealth and privilege, the poet is seduced by Jeanne’s dusky beauty and sensuality, and obsessed by her insatiable sexual appetites. Restricted by the color of her skin, Jeanne views Baudelaire as the opportunity for security and freedom from the constant financial worries that assault her. The goddess first inhabits the stunning Jeanne Duval, a half-black, half-white dancer in 1842 Paris who has captured the heart of poet Charles Baudelaire. The goddess lives through the bodies of three particular women, gradually claiming self-knowledge in the spirit world. Sharing their grief, the women experience an otherworldly sensation none can afterward describe, a passage of spirit - the birth of Elizi, the Afro-Caribbean goddess who will be central to their lives. One dark night on Saint Domingue, an island that will one day be known as Haiti, three slave women bury a stillborn baby in a tiny coffin, each mourning the loss of the small soul.
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