After Wild Seed
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
Wild Seed wrecked you with Anyanwu's centuries-long resistance against Doro's control, blending African mythology with the rawness of colonial violence. The Salt Roads channels that same energy through a goddess born from enslaved women's suffering, possessing bodies across Haitian plantations and Parisian stages. It's the spiritual possession, cultural authenticity, and power struggles you crave—just replace immortal body-hoppers with divine interventions that cut equally deep.
