Scarborough / Catherine Hernandez.
Material type: TextPublication details: Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, c2017.Description: 258 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781551526775 (trade pbk.)
- C813/.6 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Fiction | West Grey Neustadt Branch Shelves | Fiction | FIC HER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Canada Reads Nominee 2022, Evergreen Forest of Reading Nominee 2018 | 35830002118056 |
A poignant, multi-voiced novel about life in the inner city. Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighbourhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America. Like many inner-city communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty, drugs, crime, and urban blight. Scarborough the novel employs a multitude of voices to tell the story of a tight-knit neighbourhood under fire: among them, Victor, a black artist harassed by the police; Winsum, a West Indian restaurant owner struggling to keep it together; and Hina, a Muslim school worker who witnesses first-hand the impact of poverty on education. And then there are the three kids who work to rise above a system that consistently fails them: Bing, a gay Filipino boy who lives under the shadow of his father's mental illness; Sylvie, Bing's best friend, a Native girl whose family struggles to find a permanent home to live in; and Laura, whose history of neglect by her mother is destined to repeat itself with her father.
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