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Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab
โ Scribed by Shani Mootoo
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 157 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
An immensely moving novel about a woman who becomes a man, and the effect of this change on the child she abandoned, by a writer whose work has been nominated for the Giller, GG, Man Booker and Dublin IMPAC prizes.
Jonathan Lewis-Adey was nine when his parents, who were raising him in a comfortable house on a tree-lined street in downtown Toronto, separated, and his mother Sid vanished entirely from his life. It is not until he is a grown man--a writer with two books to his name, a supportive girlfriend, and a promising career-- that Jonathan finally reconnects with his beloved lost parent, only to find, to his shock and dismay, that the woman he knew as "Sid" has become an elegant man named Sydney living quietly in a well-appointed house in his native Trinidad.
In the nine years since then, Jonathan has travelled from Canada to pay regular visits to Sydney on his island retreat, trying with quiet desperation to rediscover the parent he adored inside...
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