![]() ![]() ![]() “I saw him fold up his soul and put it in the bottom of his shoe,” the narrator says later about Wendell, a former academic who abandoned his studies to give in to their father’s insistence that a life in business was the only one worth living. The book is narrated by an almost 40-year-old unnamed, ungendered, “all but dissertation” PhD student reflecting on a visit from older brother Wendell. ![]() While a string of failed relationships and an unfinished thesis dissertation do not amount to the building blocks of plot that would excite most, in the hands of CanLit legend Dionne Brand these banal subjects transform into a layered exploration of how someone so desperately trying to escape the constraints of traditional expectations and power relations is still bound by them. ![]()
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