A review by aidahdefilippo
The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah

5.0

Wasn't a huge fan of the book upon finishing my first reading of it, but Appanah is writing a whole new fictional addendum to La Frontera with the history of Indian indentured servitude in the British colonies. Without saying so much in words about the conditions of Mauritius pre- and post-independence, she paints a vivid, painful, and honest picture of the harm done by colonizers to the nascent nations of the Global South. Appanah makes a brave refusal to forgive and forget their disregard for the humanity of those they shipped around the world like cargo and the communities we inevitably formed. True canon.