But the reappearance of an old girlfriend forces Michael to contemplate the racism and police brutality that derailed his big brother’s life. Michael and Ruth keep to themselves, still traumatized by Francis’s violent death. The Toronto suburb is home to immigrants of colour, struggling to raise families on minimum wage jobs. The boys’ parents are Trinidadian: their mother, Ruth is black their absent father, South Asian. He cares for their mother in the same gray, dilapidated Scarborough, Ontario, complex in which they were raised. The narrator, Michael, is Francis’s 20-something brother. When the story opens, Francis has been dead 10 years. So, too, it is with Chariandy’s latest novel, in which an air of mystery surrounds the narrator’s older brother, Francis, especially the nature of his relationship with his best friend.
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