Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab

Author  Shani Mootoo
Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab

A young man travels to Trinidad to reconnect with a transgender parent, uncovering the complex realities of love and family.

“Mootoo’s character-driven novel is rich in setting and slow in pace, inviting the reader to linger over its closely observed details.” —Booklist

Jonathan Lewis-Adey was nine when his parents separated, and his mother, Sid, vanished entirely from his life. It is not until he is a grown man that Jonathan finally reconnects with his beloved lost parent, only to find, to his shock and dismay, that the woman he knew as “Sid” in Toronto has become an elegant man named Sydney living in his native Trinidad. For nine years, Jonathan has paid regular visits to Sydney on his island retreat, trying with…

$21.95
May 9, 2017
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