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I love when I try a new writer, love them, and know I have more of their writing to look forward to! David Chariandy is such a writer! Brother is emotionally charged and politically relevant in under 200 pages. Not a word wasted. The setting of 1980’s Scarborough, Ontario is a character itself in this coming of age novel of brothers Francis and Michael, sons of their Trinidadian immigrant single mother. “Sometimes, explained my aunt, she had been jealous of her older sister, and the perfect life she alone had found by going away. Mother stayed quiet. She did not say that our father had left us years before. She did not admit that she had not had the time or money to complete her studies to become a nurse. She did not hint at the debt or struggle or the aches she often felt”.