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This involving novel will appeal to fans of Mootoo’s previous books, lovers of Caribbean fiction, and readers interested in complex family stories. The climax is unexpected but realistic, and the resolution surprises but upon consideration seems inevitable. Mootoo’s meticulous writing includes a complicated, intriguing structure (prologue, four parts describing a period of six-plus months, and epilogue) into which she incorporates a coming-of-age story and convincing portraits of two troubled marriages. Once readers become involved in the story, though, the complex plot and truly exquisite character development sustain interest. The author walks you through beautiful parts of Trinidad and descriptions are so real that you almost drift to those places though her descriptions. The story’s slow start (part 1 begins with 22 pages of description by an unnamed narrator) demands a committed reader. Valmiki's daughter is beautiful father daughter family saga and the competing pulls of race, class, and sexuality. Viveka, the older child, seeks to discover her place in the formal, restrictive traditions of the wealthy Indian community, while her mother schemes to keep Valmiki’s pursuits a secret by manipulating those same customs, which she understands so very well.
In Mootoo’s latest novel, it is a father’s secrets (support of a male lover, multiple heterosexual liaisons) that drive an Asian Indian–Trinidadian family’s internal and social lives.
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