Brother
With shimmering prose and mesmerizing precision, David Chariandy takes us inside the lives of Michael and Francis. They are the sons of Trinidadian immigrants, their father has disappeared and their mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home.
David Chariandy is a novelist and Professor of contemporary literature at Simon Fraser University. Chariandy specializes in Canadian, Black, and Caribbean fiction as well as creative writing. In 2019, he was the winner of Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Prize.
Other publications from this author include:
- I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter (2018)
- The Reverend’s Apprentice (2008)
- Soucouyant (2007)
- “‘The Fiction of Belonging’: On Second-Generation Black Writing in Canada” in Callaloo, 30 (3), 818-829 (2007)
- “Postcolonial Diasporas” in Postcolonial Text, 2 (1) (2006)
- “‘Canada in Us Now’: Locating the Criticism of Black Canadian Writing” in Essays on Canadian Writing, 75, 196-216 (2002)