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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Chariandy, David John, 1969-     Subjects     Brothers -- Fiction.     Immigrants -- Fiction.     Trinidadians -- Canada -- Fiction.     Blacks -- Canada -- Fiction.     Trinidadian Canadians -- Fiction.     Shooting -- Fiction.     Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.     Scarborough (Toronto, Ont.) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Chariandy, David John, 1969-       by title:      Brother / David Char...       by call number:      FICTION CHA     Search the Web     Chariandy, David John, 1969-     Brothers -- Fiction.     Immigrants -- Fiction.     Trinidadians -- Canada -- Fiction.     Blacks -- Canada -- Fiction.     Trinidadian Canadians -- Fiction.     Shooting -- Fiction.     Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.     Scarborough (Toronto, Ont.) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Brother / David Chariandy. by Chariandy, David John, 1969- McClelland & Stewart, 2017. Call #: FICTION CHA Subjects Brothers -- Fiction.   Immigrants -- Fiction.   Trinidadians -- Canada -- Fiction.   Blacks -- Canada -- Fiction.   Trinidadian Canadians -- Fiction.   Shooting -- Fiction.   Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.   Scarborough (Toronto, Ont.) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780771023330 9780771022906 (hc.) Description:  180 p. ; 22 cm. Summary:  "An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991. With shimmering prose and mesmerizing precision, David Chariandy takes us inside the lives of Michael and Francis. They are the sons of Trinidadian immigrants, their father has disappeared and their mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home. Coming of age in The Park, a cluster of town houses and leaning concrete towers in the disparaged outskirts of a sprawling city, Michael and Francis battle against the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry -- teachers stream them into general classes; shopkeepers see them only as thieves; and strangers quicken their pace when the brothers are behind them. Always Michael and Francis escape into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness that cuts through their neighbourhood, where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves. Propelled by the pulsing beats and styles of hip hop, Francis, the older of the two brothers, dreams of a future in music. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow. With devastating emotional force David Chariandy, a unique and exciting voice in Canadian literature, crafts a heartbreaking and timely story about the profound love that exists between brothers and the senseless loss of lives cut short with the shot of a gun."--From publisher. Genre:  Literary fiction. Canadian fiction. Black fiction. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION CHA Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Woodlawn Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION CHA Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION CHA Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION CHA Adult books Trace Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION CHA Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION CHA Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION CHA Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION CHA Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Home Delivery - HN Adult Black Fiction FICTION CHA Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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