4 Stars.

I read this all in one go. It's at once familiar - set in Scarborough, in a world I can picture so well - but also unfamiliar, relaying the immigrant experience for a Trinidadian family who relocates to Canada and the struggles they endure there, largely related to deeply institutionalized racism and ghettoization.

It's told in shifts back and forth in time, and I think that took some of the emotional impact away, and that, combined with some of the queer representation, took away that final star for me.

I really liked this, and it shook me too. I think it was a great length, and it is a story I'll absolutely remember.