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I received this book as a giveaway through Good Reads.
I had read David Chariandy's first novel, Soucouyant, and thought it was tremendous. This book is equally good. It deals with two brothers growing up in a tough neighborhood in Scarborough, their single mother who tries to provide for them and as a result, has to leave them unattended for long periods of time, and the aftermath when things go wrong.
I don't really know what to say about this novel. Chariandy has a gift for putting more into a short novel than other writers can into hundreds of pages. No word is wasted, the characters feel real, no pat answers are provided, the story is compelling.
I'm always better at dissecting books that I don't like than those I do, so I will just say that this is an excellent book, as good as his first, and I wrote a much better review of that one then I'm doing here. So go read that review, and then read both books because they are both exceptional.
I had read David Chariandy's first novel, Soucouyant, and thought it was tremendous. This book is equally good. It deals with two brothers growing up in a tough neighborhood in Scarborough, their single mother who tries to provide for them and as a result, has to leave them unattended for long periods of time, and the aftermath when things go wrong.
I don't really know what to say about this novel. Chariandy has a gift for putting more into a short novel than other writers can into hundreds of pages. No word is wasted, the characters feel real, no pat answers are provided, the story is compelling.
I'm always better at dissecting books that I don't like than those I do, so I will just say that this is an excellent book, as good as his first, and I wrote a much better review of that one then I'm doing here. So go read that review, and then read both books because they are both exceptional.