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lailybibliography 's review for:
Brother
by David Chariandy
As a Scarborough resident myself, this hit me. Hard. I live very close by to the protagonists’ place and am very familiar with all the locations within the story. It is quite surreal to ever see our part of the city represented. Much less by a voice who actually seems to understand the everyday hardships and gritty realities of Black and Brown immigrant Scarberians. I have so much to say about this book, some of it coherent and most of it uncoordinated thoughts and inklings about random little details of the world-building (is it really world-building if it’s real??) and characters and the realistic diversity of the area, (sidenote, finally a novel where Canadian diversity is shown not as a gimmick for some sense of white liberalist fulfillment but rather the truthful look at how marginalized, isolated, and oppressed we are even in the supposed cultural mosaic that is Toronto.) but I shall leave it here. I wouldn’t really be able to articulate it properly into words that make sense anyways.
P.S. it’s getting that lgbtqiap rep stop bc I sensed hella queer vibes from Francis and Jelly. Don’t @ me.
P.S. it’s getting that lgbtqiap rep stop bc I sensed hella queer vibes from Francis and Jelly. Don’t @ me.