Brother alive a novel

"In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island's most diverse and precarious neighborhoods, Coolidge. The three boys are an inseparable if consp...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khalid, Zain (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Grove Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000 i 4500
001 on1287993802
003 OCoLC
005 20260629144200.0
008 220520t20222022nyu e 000 f eng
010 |a  2022023794 
019 |a 1287923711  |a 1287957503  |a 1302898774  |a 1322226074 
020 |a 9780802159762  |q hardcover 
020 |a 0802159761  |q hardcover 
020 |z 9780802159779  |q electronic book 
024 8 |a 40031266511 
035 |a (OCoLC)1287993802  |z (OCoLC)1287923711  |z (OCoLC)1287957503  |z (OCoLC)1302898774  |z (OCoLC)1322226074 
037 |b Pgw, C/O Ips Jackson 210 American Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301  |n SAN 631-8630 
040 |a DLC  |b eng  |e rda  |c DLC  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCF  |d JCX  |d JCW  |d RNL  |d YU6  |d WC4  |d TXSCH  |d CDX  |d CHY  |d VLW  |d VP@  |d SDG  |d RB0  |d YDX  |d NMP  |d YUS  |d PPR  |d MEAUC  |d OCL  |d PCB 
042 |a pcc 
043 |a n-us-ny  |a a-su--- 
050 0 0 |a PS3611.H3326  |b B76 2022 
082 0 0 |a 813/.6  |2 23/eng/20220520 
100 1 |a Khalid, Zain,  |e author. 
245 1 0 |a Brother alive :  |b a novel /  |c Zain Khalid. 
250 |a First edition. 
250 |a First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. 
264 1 |a New York :  |b Grove Press,  |c 2022. 
264 4 |c Ã2022 
300 |a 338 pages ;  |c 24 cm 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a "In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island's most diverse and precarious neighborhoods, Coolidge. The three boys are an inseparable if conspicuous trio: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef indeterminately Middle Eastern. Nevertheless, Youssef is keeping a secret: he sees a hallucinatory double, an imaginary friend who seems absolutely real, a shapeshifting familiar he calls Brother. The boys' adoptive father, Imam Salim, is known for his radical sermons, but at home he is often absent, spending long evenings in his study with whiskey-laced coffee, writing letters to his former compatriots back in Saudi Arabia. Like Youssef, he too has secrets, including the cause of his failing health and the truth about what happened to the boys' parents. When Imam Salim's path takes him back to Saudi Arabia, the boys will be forced to follow. There they will be captivated by an opulent, almost futuristic world, a linear city that seems to offer a more sustainable modernity than that of the West. But they will have to change if they want to survive in this new world, and the arrival of a creature as powerful as Brother will not go unnoticed. Stylistically brilliant and intellectually acute, Brother Alive is a remarkable novel of family, capitalism, power, sexuality, and the possibility of reunion for those who are broken"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
650 0 |a Brothers  |z New York (State)  |z New York  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Familiars (Spirits)  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Secret friends  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Families  |z New York (State)  |z New York  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Gay men  |z New York (State)  |z New York  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Adoptees  |z New York (State)  |z New York  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Reunions  |v Fiction. 
651 0 |a Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)  |v Fiction. 
651 0 |a Saudi Arabia  |v Fiction. 
655 7 |a Domestic fiction.  |2 lcgft 
655 7 |a Gay fiction.  |2 lcgft 
655 7 |a Coming-of-age fiction.  |2 lcgft 
776 0 8 |i Online version:  |a Khalid, Zain.  |t Brother alive.  |b First edition.  |d New York : Grove Press, 2022  |z 9780802159779  |w (DLC) 2022023795 
994 |a C0  |b PCB 
949 |a schlow  |b SAFIC  |c Khalid  |d i  |e 39635104466289  |f 749001  |g loc  |j 06/13/2023 
999 |a 480535