Shani Mootoo

• Sep-1998
• / Literary

Set on a fictional Caribbean island in the town of Paradise, Cereus Blooms at Night unveils the mystery surrounding Mala Ramchandin and the tempestuous history of her family. At the heart of this bold and seductive novel is an alleged crime committed...

• Jul-2006
• / Literary

"A classic Romeo and Juliet love story" spanning decades from the World War II Caribbean to modern-day Vancouver (The Washington Post Book World).   At the dawn of the Second World War on the island of Guanagaspar, Harry, the son of a w...

• Jan-2009
• / General Fiction

In Valmikiââ,¬â"¢s Daughter, critically acclaimed and best-selling novelist Shani Mootoo returns to the style -- and some of the themes -- she first explored in her breakout book, Cereus Blooms at Night. Mootoo introduces readers to the Krishnus...

• May-2017
• / Literary

Jonathan Lewis-Adey was nine when his parents separated, and his mother, Sid, vanished entirely from his life. It is not until he is a grown man that Jonathan finally reconnects with his beloved lost parent, only to find, to his shock and dismay, tha...

• Sep-2020
• / Literary

"Polar Vortex is a powerful, fraught, and inventive exploration of the impossibility of ever really knowing the people we come to love. Told in urgent, incandescent prose and effortlessly spinning in and out of time, the book is an intimate and st...

• Sep-2025
• / Literary

From celebrated writer Shani Mootoo comes an innovative and revelatory work of autofiction about family secrets, trauma, race, class, and loss.InStarry Starry Night, Mootoo gives us the singular voice of Anju Ghoshal, a young girl living in 1960s Tri...