Review: Zain Khalid's "Brother Alive" — A Boundary-Crossing Debut Novel on Family and Capitalism
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A review of Zain Khalid's debut novel "Brother Alive," which follows three adopted brothers living in a world shaped by capitalist systems of control. The novel explores themes of family, sexuality, and identity, and was a finalist for the Ursula K. LeGuin Prize for Fiction. The reviewer gives it a 4.5/5 rating, praising its creative, boundary-crossing approach and its "realism of a larger reality."
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· 3 pulledBROTHER ALIVE, creative, boundary-crossing "realism of a larger reality"
From the winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award, and finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize, comes an astonishing debut novel about family, sexuality, and capitalist systems of control
Rating: 4.5* of five
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