Brother

2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Winner

In luminous, incisive prose, a startling new literary talent explores masculinity, race, and sexuality against the pulsing beats of hip hop and the relentless heat of summer.

In the sweltering summer of 1991, violence simmers in The Park, a Scarborough housing complex outside of Toronto where Michael and Francis, sons of Trinidadian immigrants, are coming of age and learning to stomach the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront ...