Scarborough

A cover image of Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez for a book review. Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez CW/TW: racism, child abuse, bullying, domestic abuse, off-page drug and alcohol usage, police harassment, sexual harassment Synopsis from Goodreads Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America; like many inner-city communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty, drugs, crime, and urban blight. Scarborough the novel employs a multitude of voices to tell the story of a tight-knit neighborhood under fire: among them, Victor, a black artist harassed by the police; Winsum, a West Indian restaurant owner struggling to keep it together; and Hina, a Muslim school worker who witnesses first-hand the impact of poverty on education. And then there are the three kids who work to rise above a system that consistently fails them: Bing, a gay Filipino boy who lives under the shadow of his father's mental illness; Sylvie, Bing's best friend, a Native girl whose family struggles to find a permanent home to live in; and Laura, whose history of neglect by her mother is destined to repeat itself with her father The movia based on ths book premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival ads won 8 Canadian screen awards'