![]() The people we imagine most apart from "us" are, oftentimes, our own forgotten kin. ![]() We live in a time, dearest daughter, when the callous and ignorant in wealthy nations have made it their business to loudly proclaim who are the deserving "us" (those really "us") and who are the alien and undeserving "them." But the story of our origins offers us a different insight. Winner of the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, David Chariandy's Brother is his intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, and tightly constructed second novel, exploring questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough Paperback Chapters-Indigo Shop Local See all formats & retailers 1. ![]() ![]() Which us, the readers, understand through flashbacks. He doesnt like to talk about Francis leaving but he constantly thinks about it. The loss of his brother took a toll on Micheal and left a hole in his heart. And there are current terrible circumstances whereby others, in the desperate hope for a better life, either migrate or are pushed across the hardened borders of nations and find themselves stranded in unwelcoming lands. Micheals brother, Francis, left home without any information as of where he was going or how long. Today, many years after indenture and especially slavery, there are many who continue to live painfully in wakes of historical violence. If there is anything to learn from the story of our ancestry, it is that you should respect and protect yourself that you should demand not only justice but joy that you should see, truly see, the vulnerability and the creativity and the enduring beauty of others. You are neither solely nor uniquely responsible to fix them. ![]() “You did not create the inequalities and injustices of this world, daughter. ![]()
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