Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab
A Novels, Fiction, Queer book. We were all, I thought, counting on the probability that, simply by living in...
Jonathan Lewis-Adey was nine when his parents, who were raising him in a tree-lined Toronto neighbourhood, separated and his mother, Sid, vanished from his life. It was not until he was a grown man, and a promising writer with two books to his name, that Jonathan finally reconnected with his beloved parent—only to find, to his shock and dismay, that the woman he’d known as “Sid” had morphed into an elegant, courtly man named Sydney. In the decade following this discovery, Jonathan made regular pilgrimages from Toronto to visit Sydney, who now lived quietly in a well-appointed retreat in his native Trinidad. And on each visit, Jonathan struggled to overcome his confusion and anger at the choices Sydney had made, trying with increasing desperation to rediscover the parent he’d once adored inside...
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Zain pinched my skin. I surprised myself when I instantly flipped up that same arm and gripped her wrist hard. I said, in a soft voice, Dont do that. There was no smile on my face now. But that was when her facade broke, and she was suddenly grinning. I felt her body relax. My grip relaxed then, too, but I did not let go of her hand. I remained unsmiling, suddenly frightened, but not of her. Shani Mootoo, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab // 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 didnt alike. Greeted as champions. 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. 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... Perhaps many of them shared my sentiments, but our options then were black and white, between this and that. The grey area of freedom we longed for existed only in dreams. Shani Mootoo, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab //
As implied by the title, this book moves crabwise when it moves at all. And although it covers a time period of well over 20 years, it actually moves forward very little. It is, above all, about love and its complexity, sorrow, joy and pain. Mootoo is at her very best in the moments shared between Sydney and Jonathan during Sydney's... A beautifully written book that leads you in a meander as the story is revealed, not through the intellect, and curious at times, but told in moments from the heart and through the senses. Poignant and deeply-felt, as the reader discovers an intimacy with the characters and their lives. Belonging, a sense of place, family and gender... This is the story of a young man, searching for answers from the mother who had left him when he was young. The first answer he gets upon finding his mother, is that she now identifies as a man. This book brings us through the journey the two of them take as the boys mother (who is now a man) is at the end of his life on this earth....
