This astonishing debut gives voice to sufferings and struggles of women, the queer and non-binary, reminiscent of Audre Lorde’s call for “the transformation of silence into language and action”. But what makes this collection truly revelatory is its bold envisioning of a Trinidad – and, beyond that, a world – in which identities and hierarchies of power are fluid rather than fixed. It is a fierce world, ripe with possibility: “I am the queen / the comeuppance / the hard heretic nature intended."
Sarala Estruch
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/18/everyone-knows-i-am-a-haunting-by-shivanee-ramlochan-review-fierce-fantasy