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005			20231009192637.0
008			181030s20182018nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9781635572049
050	0	0	_aPR9199.4.C478 _bB76 2017
082	1		_aFIC CHA _2
100	1		_aChariandy, David, 1969-
245	1	0	_aBrother _c/ David Chariandy.
260			_aNew York _b: Bloomsbury Publishing USA _c, 2018
300			_a180 p. _c; 22 cm
520			_aOne sweltering summer in the Park, a housing complex outside of Toronto, Michael and Francis are coming of age and learning to stomach the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry. While their Trinidadian single mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home, Francis helps the days pass by inventing games and challenges, bringing Michael to his crew's barbershop hangout, and leading escapes into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves. Propelled by the beats and styles of hip hop, Francis dreams of a future in music. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aBrothers _v--Fiction
650		4	_aImmigrants _z-Canada _vFiction
650		4	_aTrinidadians _z-Canada _x-Fiction
650		4	_aRace relations _x-Fiction
650		4	_aDrive-by shootings _x-Fiction
650		4	_aMusicians _v--Fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c245923 _d245923