Recent directions in the Indian Ocean Studies emphasize the connectedness and dynamism inherent to the region. Through successive population movements, communities were created, destroyed, and re-created, as suggested by Markus MP Vink’s “new thalassology.” Examining Lindsey Collen’s work through the Indian Ocean Studies lens reveals an elaborate language craft that enables an exploration of the issues of identity and memory in contemporary Mauritius. Glissantian key concepts of creolization, cross-culturality, hybridity, and diversity are essential to this discussion, as Collen’s work can be read as an illustration of the entanglements inherent to the Mauritian identities, histories, and memories. This paper will examine the literary devices used by Collen to illustrate this Indian Oceanic idea of shifting and fluctuating multiple identities. As this paper suggests, Collen achieves this through several literary devices, including her use of language, the recurrent trinity of characters found in most of her novels, and her treatment of the island trope (islandscape) and memory.