Brother by David Chariandy
Brother is the story of two brothers raised by a single Trinidadian mother in a housing complex in Toronto in the early ‘90s. This slim but powerful novel tackles race, masculinity, police violence, poverty, and family, all with incredible precision and depth. This novel won the 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

- Last updated: September 8, 2023
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The Canadian Encyclopedia. "David Chariandy is a professor of English literature at Simon Fraser University and a very promising creative writer."
Quill and Quire. "[...]Brother (McClelland & Stewart), a novel about police brutality toward Black bodies, and how a family living in low-income housing navigates the unfamiliar terrain of forgiveness."
"Lives of a Brother, Love, hope, and death in Scarberia"
"In Brother, David Chariandy shines a light on Scarborough"
"This is an exquisite Canadian novel about growing up in a poor immigrant neighbourhood of danger and futile dreams"