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skconaghan 's review for:
Brother
by David Chariandy
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
This is a sad memoir of community, love, family, and underlying hope in the midst of struggle and loss and the exhausting hardships of immigrant life. The writing is sparse, in places shocking, heartbreaking, and poetic, full of familiar places and tastes, cast in the light and time of a newer, younger, conflicted generation. Tertiary characters come and go in a blur of brief stereotype-forming encounters and bouts of sickening racism, marring and tainting a diversely beautiful demographic landscape. And in the mess and mingle, a boy, his brother, and their battered mother struggle to live, be heard, and live—just live in peace with good food and music and people.
…a symphony for Scarborough, Chariandy should adapt this for the stage.
Listened to the audiobook—a smooth and subtle reading by Joseph Pierre.