![]() ![]() Should they change who they are to survive or defend their deeply held beliefs? They find an opulent, almost futuristic world. When the Imam returns to Saudi Arabia, the brothers, now adults, will be forced to follow. The boys’ adoptive father, Imam Salim, has secrets, too, including the cause of his failing health and what happened to the boys’ biological parents. Brother persists as a companion into Youssef’s adult life, supporting him but also shaking his grip on the world. Youssef shares everything with his brothers, except for one secret: he sees a hallucinatory double, an imaginary friend he calls Brother. They are inseparable, and conspicuous: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef is indeterminately Middle Eastern. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1990, three boys unrelated but intertwined by circumstance – Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef – are adopted as infants and share a bedroom atop a mosque in Staten Island, New York. Brother Alive (Grove Press) is his first novel. Zain Khalid has written for TV and has been published in The New Yorker, The Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere. ![]()
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