SOURCE: “Flaws in the Mosaic,” in Books in Canada, Vol. 14, No. 6, August/September, 1985, p. 21.

In the review below, Bissoondath praises Clarke's skillful depiction of the complex relationship between West Immigrants and Canadian society in When Women Rule.

In an interview in a recent issue of Magazine Littéraire, the Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo says of exiles: “There are people who remain mentally or effectively attached to their country of origin; they camp. There are others, on the other hand, who adapt, change language, become French or American. There is a third category, to which I undoubtedly belong. While growing distant from my country of origin, I never really integrate into my new, adopted society, into the society in which I am living. I am not French when I live in France, American when I go to the United States. I don't feel Moroccan when I am in Morocco...