Brotherless Night

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor in this heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war (Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half).This book, a careful, vivid exploration of what's lost within a community when life and thought collapse toward binary conflict, rang softly for me as a novel for our own country in this odd time.--Nathan Heller, The New Yorker AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - WINNER OF THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION, THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION, AND THE ASIAN PRIZE FOR FICTION - FINALIST FOR THE MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, a vicious civil war tears through her home, and her dream spins off course as she sees her four beloved brothers and their friend K swept up in the mounting violence. Desperate to act, Sashi accepts K's invitation to work as a me