5/15/2023 0 Comments Novel brother by david chariandyOne sweltering summer in the Park, a housing complex outside of Toronto, Michael and Francis are coming of age and learning to stomach the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry. In luminous, incisive prose, a startling new literary talent explores masculinity, race, and sexuality against a backdrop of simmering violence during the summer of 1991. "Riveting, composed, charged with feeling" -MADELEINE THIEN "An absolutely mammoth literary talent" -KIESE LAYMON "An important, vital and groundbreaking book" -Medium "Elegant, vital, indubitably dope" -Guardian "A dwarf star of mourning and regret" -Wall Street Journal "Every sentence feels like a polished stone." -Entertainment Weekly Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Longlist New York Public Library Best Books of the Year WINNER-Rogers' Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy-concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope. A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life.
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