Shani Mootoo

Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab

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Shani Mootoo
Shani Mootoo

Trinidadian-Canadian novelist and visual artist whose Cereus Blooms at Night is a celebrated magical realist novel of Caribbean queerness and colonial legacy. Her fiction weaves the personal and the political with lyrical invention. She is an important voice in Caribbean-Canadian literature.

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