Salt : a novel
Set in Trinidad, the story is launched by the mythical tale of Guinea John, an ancestor of Blackpeople, who put two corn cobs under his arm pits and flew from a clifftop, away from the scene of his enslavement, back to Africa. His descendants have eaten salt, grown too heavy to fly, and cannot follow him. They are left to wrestle with their future on the island. Now, more than one hundred years after "Emancipation," like all the people who share the island - Asians, Africans, and Europeans - they need to be weaned from old captivities and welcomed into the New World
Libro-e, English, 1997
Persea Books, New York, 1997