![]() ![]() Her exhausting schedule meant that they were often left home alone. Their mother worked multiple cleaning jobs and commuted all over the city to try to provide for them. They were both born in Toronto to Trinidadian immigrant parents, but their father left when they were young. The novel then switches to the past tense and lays out the history and context of Michael and Francis's lives. Michael still lives in his childhood home with his mother, and it is quickly clear that Francis is gone and neither Michael nor his mother have moved on. ![]() ![]() After a decade away, Aisha returns to The Park-a housing complex where she and Michael grew up in the impoverished Scarborough district of Toronto-to grieve her recently deceased father. After a brief prologue where Michael and Francis climb a utility pole and speak about memory as a survival tactic, the novel opens in the present with the arrival of Aisha. The narrative often makes sudden shifts between the present and various storylines in the past. Each chapter is further broken up into unmarked sections that move through time in a nested structure of memory that lays out Michael's relationship with and loss of Francis. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018.ĭavid Chariandy's novel is narrated in the first-person by Michael, who has lost his older brother, Francis, and now cares for his heartbroken mother. The following version of this book was used to make the guide: Chariandy, David. ![]()
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