{"product_id":"the-road-to-the-salt-sea-a-novel","title":"The Road to the Salt Sea A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePEN\/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST - ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLIST\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad's What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAble God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must flash his \"toothpaste-white smile\" for wealthy guests. When not tending to the hotel's overprivileged clientele, he muses over self-help books and draws life lessons from the game of chess.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Able's ordinary life is upended when an early morning room service order leads him to interfere with Akudo, a sex worker involved with a powerful but dangerous hotel guest. Suddenly caught in a web of violence, guilt, and fear, Able must run to save himself--a journey that takes him into the desert with a group of drug-addled migrants, headed by a charismatic religious leader calling himself Ben Ten. The travelers' dream of reaching Europe--and a new life--is shattered when they fall prey to human traffickers, suffer starvation, and find themselves on the precipice of death, fighting for their lives and their freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Able God moves into the treacherous unknown, his consciousness becomes focused on survival and the foundations of his beliefs--his ideas about betterment and salvation--are forever altered. Suspenseful, incisive, and illuminating, The Road to the Salt Sea is a story of family, fate, religion, survival, the failures of the Nigerian class system, and what often happens to those who seek their fortunes elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55007303532887,"sku":"9780063050860","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/11712703482210.jpg?v=1789310350","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/the-road-to-the-salt-sea-a-novel","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}