![]() ![]() They’re ostracized and discriminated against on a daily basis. Set in the mid-80’s, the novel’s Scarborough is home to mostly immigrants or children of immigrants. ![]() This experience with loss and grief isn’t an isolated experience in the city. The author shows the reader just how deeply Michael is hurting by using indirect prose. He doesn’t linger on Michael’s flashbacks of his brother they’re too painful for him to remember. Never so much as saying Francis’ name, or talking about grief, they move through their daily routines without excitement.Ĭhariandy uses this silence as a tool. This is a feeling that worsens when the young family loses Francis, leaving Michael and his mother struggling to find peace. In Brother, most of the characters are immigrants and they share a common experience: they’re never accepted. In their neighborhood, they’re like everyone else-facing the same struggle to succeed and fit in-but outside, they’re untrusted and unwelcomed. ![]() They’re unable to learn how to live without him. In the novel, Michael and his Trinidadian mother grapple with their grief for over ten years after Michael’s brother Francis dies. A eulogy to lost boys and corrupted innocence, David Chariandy’s latest novel, Brother, follows the residents of Scarborough who search in vain for a place to call home. ![]()
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