![]() ![]() ![]() She is also an accomplished visual and video artist. No one here needed to know the truth or to question whether such authenticity was achievable. Her acclaimed first novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, was published in fourteen countries, was a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award. ![]() The novel recounts the story of an old lady named. So on this particular occasion I had dressed as I always did, to announce my individuality and assert that I had indeed found authenticity. Cereus Blooms at Night(1996) is the first novel published by film-maker, artist, and writer Shani Mootoo. I had given up all of this in the hope that I would no longer have to live a lie, that I could, at last, come into my authentic self. I had left behind strangers who, passing on the street, bid each other good day, and people who put off their own chores to lend you a hand. Cereus blooms at night Bookreader Item Preview. ![]() I lived now without the deep comfort of neighbours who cooked more food than they needed for themselves so that they could parcel it up and bring you some. I was a champ for giving up the perks of living with family, among friends whose families had known mine for generations, among people familiar to me from primary school days. “We were all, I thought, counting on the probability that, simply by living in a big North American city, we would be greeted as warriors on our arrival back home by those who knew us and those who didn’t alike. ![]()
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