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A review by zachcarter
Brother Alive by Zain Khalid
5.0
The world is full of family you don't know.
What a gorgeous, messy, imaginative debut novel. It deals with some really interesting ideas, like the ethics and morals of revolution and world-building, and the concept of family, especially in a Muslim community. It's such a genre-bending novel that jumps from drama to sci-fi to political, religious and back, I felt like it was a mashup of The Matrix, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Terry Gillam's Brazil, and so much more. It's rare that I would want to re-read a novel so quickly, but I'm already putting this back on TBR to reread.
What a gorgeous, messy, imaginative debut novel. It deals with some really interesting ideas, like the ethics and morals of revolution and world-building, and the concept of family, especially in a Muslim community. It's such a genre-bending novel that jumps from drama to sci-fi to political, religious and back, I felt like it was a mashup of The Matrix, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Terry Gillam's Brazil, and so much more. It's rare that I would want to re-read a novel so quickly, but I'm already putting this back on TBR to reread.