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called the novel "bulky" and "ambitious", noting that "Khalid has plenty to say about art, relationships, religion, and family But the novel creaks from its overabundance of ambition
Whatever power Brother might have as a symbol for hidden lives and alternate existences is sapped by the busy
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where, rather than holding on to what’s gone, residents are eager to rid themselves of the recent past". Bromwich noted, however, that "when the book leaves the city, it tumbles off its axis without the backdrop of New York, the abstractions pile up and the churning plot ceases to satisfy".
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