Brother

"A brilliant, powerful elegy . . . pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life." --Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

"Marks the beginning of an absolutely mammoth literary talent." --Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division and Heavy

Winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

Michael and Francis are the bright, ambitious sons of Trinidadian immigrants. Coming of age in 1991 on the outskirts of a sprawling city, the brothers battle against careless prejudices and the bigotry of low expectations. Francis aspires to a future in hip hop, while Michael dreams of Aisha, a classmate whose eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But one sweltering summer night the hopes of all three are irrevocably cut short.

In luminous prose, a startling new literary talent explores masculinity, race, and sexuality against a backdrop of simmering violence. With Brother, David Chariandy builds a devastating and incisive story about family, race, and the senseless loss of young lives.