Matt Mazereeuw’s Reviews > Cereus Blooms at Night > Status Update

5 pages about an old lady playing with her bugs, not sure how much I liked this part. Let's go back to the gay plot thanks

"Elsie fully expected
that he (she) would outgrow the foolishness soon enough. But the
child walked and ran and dressed and talked and tumbled and all
but relieved himself so much like an authentic boy that Elsie soon
apparently forgot she had ever given birth to a girl. And the father,
in his few waking episodes, seemed not to remember that he had
once fathered one." (110)

Very woke Caribbean book!

"His hand was tender yet his grip so secure and present I was compelled to look directly into his eyes. I can think of no other wat to express myself-even superlatives would be useless: simply stated, he was breathtakingly beautiful." (101)

Mootoo wrote this and then stated that the story would be less about the narrator :/

Thought I was just picking up on some queer subtext, but it's honest representation! Nice! Excited to read more about this and have people speak in Caribbean dialect

"He gone take the child in he own house?" This is helping my homesickness

"Behind the flattery, the edge of mockery was plain to anyone who must, as a matter of survival, learn to detect it" (15)