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Shani Mootoo. He Drown She in the Sea. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2005. 350 pp. $29.99 hc; $21.00 sc.
In her second novel, He Drown She in the Sea, Shani Mootoo, Indo-Trinidadian-Canadian writer, visual artist, and filmmaker, once again creates a masterful literary work that coheres around the themes of identity politics, belonging and the search for home, sexuality, and desire. As in her acclaimed first novel, Cereus Blooms at Night (1996), in He Drown She Mootoo explores the complications of race and class in the relationships of her main characters; and, again, a fictionalized Caribbean island that is a stand-in for Trinidad features prominently in the setting. Bur that is not to say that her latest offering is simply a rehashing of her earlier work. One obvious difference is that the British Columbia setting is as much part of the story line as the...
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