Cereus Blooms at Night. Shani Mootoo

A phenomenal modern classic, new to the Vintage Classics list, for readers both long-standing and new. Through dialogue and flashback we learn of the colonialism and racism, love and envy, trauma and rewilding that have shaped our extraordinary protagonist- Mala Ramchandin.   EVERYONE THINKS MALA IS A MURDERER   Everyone in Paradise thinks Mala Ramchandin is a murderer. But with no body, no evidence and no witnesses, Mala is sent to an Alms House as a madwoman instead of prison. He