In Blossoms we see Blossoms really trying to fit. When she marries Victor, it was her way of trying to merge-in. However this short story has something which neither Canadian Experience nor Marigolds has, that is an undying spirit. Here we find a Black woman who other than facing an identity crisis, for she neither can return to Trinidad and nor Canada would accept her whole heartedly, goes back to her African past and becomes a Obeah woman. She identifies with a higher being, the goddess Oya. This helps her gain a certain kind of independence: independence from both the whites and also from gender politics.
Shafia Parveen
PGI
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