![]() ![]() ![]() This kind of navigation requires the novice to pay close attention. Michael is taught how to climb the pole with nerve-steeling care: “You had to watch your older brother and follow close his move” (2). Via this special place, the street smart Francis, who is also book smart, teaches Michael not only how to decipher the codes of the street but also how to read the cartography of the body. going way into the sky,” which he climbs to have a “great look out” unto the world. Francis’s special place is a “hydro pole. It appears as a typical episode in which an older brother, in spending time with a younger brother, shares his special place: “Once he showed me his place in the sky.” 3 Not only is Francis, the older sibling, sharing with Michael, the younger one, a place of retreat, comfort, and belonging, he is also providing instructions about a way of navigating the world. 2 There is an early scene in the novel in which Chariandy features a moment of male bonding. In this second novel, Chariandy continues his creative engagement with the intimacies between sons and their mothers but moves beyond the familial to give focus more pointedly to how black men in particular negotiate intimacies with other black men. Because I have been thinking about intimacies for some time, 1 David Chariandy’s Brother gives me pause for further reflection. ![]()
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