Arts
This is the story of brotherhood of two young boys growing upin Scarborough a not so nice part of TorontoThese boysFrancis and Michael like David Chariandy are or Trinidadian descent with an overworked black mother who works double sometimes triple shifts andan absent Indian fatherBrother explores questions of masculinity family race and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complexduring the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991its dangerous and its ugly and the author doesnt try to find beauty in it it doesnt exist YetChariandystill manages to capture the readers imagination his writing and story telling speak volumes