"I wanted to capture this narrative, one of resilience, creativity, tenderness and love." "These stories are often overlooked and ignored," he added. "I wanted to capture what Scarborough was really like for a child in the early 1990s, particularly a child with a Black mother and a South Asian father growing up at that particular time," Chariandy told CBC Books in 2017. It was also longlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The novel won the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the 2018 Toronto Book Award and the 2018 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Why Lisa Ray chose to defend Brother by David Chariandy on Canada Reads.(Guy Godfree/Elevation Pictures)īrother was championed on Canada Reads 2019 by Canadian actor, author and advocate Lisa Ray. An image from the film adaptation of the novel Brother by David Chariandy.
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