David Chariandy's Brother is a 2017 coming-of-age novel about Michael, a child of Trinidadian immigrants who struggles to come to terms with the police killing his older brother.
Set in the Park, a low-income multicultural neighborhood in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada between the early 1990s and early 2000s, the novel depicts Michael revisiting the trauma of his brother's death after Aisha, Michael's high-school girlfriend, comes to stay with him and his mother, Ruth. Overwhelmed by grief, Ruth's mental health has suffered since Francis's death, and Michael has dedicated the past decade of his life to looking after her. However, Aisha quickly perceives that both Ruth and Michael need to...
