Starry Starry Night (Book*hug Press) by Shani Mootoo, the new novel by the acclaimed Irish-Trinidadian-Canadian author, takes us to Trinidad in the 1960s, the decade of Independence — equally formative years for Anju Ghoshal, Mootoo’s surrogate in this work of autofiction. As a new nation struggles to emerge into its postcolonial identity, so does Anju struggle with facts and questions of family, class, and gender. Personal recollection intermingles with collective history in this lushly, lyrically written account of childhood and what comes after, for better or worse.