She is the smartest girl in his school, however, she has her eyes set for a different future. Michael, on the other hand, dreams of getting Aisha. Francis dreams of a future in music inspired by different hip-hop beats that he heard around him. Francis and Michael often sneak into the Rogue Valley that cuts across their neighborhood, which is full of green wilderness where they get to enjoy and imagine a better life. Strangers avoid them, shopkeepers perceive them as thieves, and teachers group them into general classes since they are seen to amount to nothing. Francis and Michael continually struggle in their fight against prejudices and low expectations of them, mostly since they are men of black and brown ancestry. This occurs as they grow in the Park around clustered concrete towers and different townhouses around the outskirts of an expanding city. Their father left them, prompting their mother to work more shifts to enable her to fend for her children to ensure that they are able to fulfill the promises of the new home. These two live with their mother, and they are among children who immigrated from Trinidad. Chariandy illustrates in high precision the lives of Francis and Michael. These situations are acted out in a house in Scarborough in the summer of 1991 with violence and high summer heat. The books illustrate controversial topics on identity, race, family, and masculinity. Brother by David Chariandy is a tightly, powerful, and intensely beautifully developed novel.

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