Cereus Blooms at Night (Paperback)

from zeborah

This was a fantastic read but at times a very hard one; serious trigger warnings for child abuse (verbal, physical, sexual).It begins as a beautifully sweet story about racial and sexual and gender identity; about family separations made by force or by choice, and about forbidden liaisons both he...

from clmueller

Truly a work of art. The book is as beautiful as it is horrifying. Like the cereus flower is beautiful and sweet on its dangerous cactus body. It pushes boundaries by making the very strange and the evil part of everyday life, revealing the trauma and horrors that are rampant in Paradise (ironic ...

from gypsysmom

This is an unusual but absolutely brilliant book. A few years ago when CBC published a list of 100 Novels that Make us Proud to Be Canadian I had read about 68 of them. I have added a few more and this one is the latest. Otherwise I probably never would have discovered this book. It came out in 1...

from sanddancer

 The book is set in the fictional island Lantanacamara, but descriptions of the place and its people suggest that it is a Caribbean island. It tells the story of Mala Ramchandin, now an old woman living in a nursing home under the care of a male nurse called, Tyler. As a bond develops between the...

from CaseyStepaniuk

The worth of something as delicious as Shani Mootoo's novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, would be hard to overestimate. I've honestly never read anything that had such a sensory effect on me: the lilting rhythm of the language, the bittersweetness of the narrative twists, everything about this novel ...