Unresolved: Shani Mootoo’s Polar Vortex (2020)
Buried In Print2020-10-07T15:23:29-04:00The characters in Shani Mootoo’s fiction often carry a burden. Cereus Blooms at Night (1996) is a lyrical and painful story of reconciling past trauma with present-day understanding (and a personal favourite). In Moving Sideways Like a Crab (2014), one character believes that all they “learned about women and