![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The people we imagine most apart from "us" are, oftentimes, our own forgotten kin. Fashioned after Dostoyevsky's The Brother's Kamarazov, David James Duncan's The Brothers K follows the mother, father, and six children of. It is Chariandys bid to keep that history alive. We live in a time, dearest daughter, when the callous and ignorant in wealthy nations have made it their business to loudly proclaim who are the deserving "us" (those really "us") and who are the alien and undeserving "them." But the story of our origins offers us a different insight. Brother is a mesmerizing tale of a Caribbean family that suffers devastating loss in a harsh new land. And there are current terrible circumstances whereby others, in the desperate hope for a better life, either migrate or are pushed across the hardened borders of nations and find themselves stranded in unwelcoming lands. Today, many years after indenture and especially slavery, there are many who continue to live painfully in wakes of historical violence. ![]() If there is anything to learn from the story of our ancestry, it is that you should respect and protect yourself that you should demand not only justice but joy that you should see, truly see, the vulnerability and the creativity and the enduring beauty of others. Brother was also named a book of the year by The Globe and Mail, The National. You are neither solely nor uniquely responsible to fix them. Ive Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter: Chariandy, David. “You did not create the inequalities and injustices of this world, daughter. ![]()
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