My Brother Simple

By Marie-Aude Murail

Subjects: Brothers, Fiction, Learning disabled youth, Care

Description: There is unrequited love, lust, bad romantic poetry, too many essays, and plenty of crisps. But the seventeen-year-old boy in this story has something extra to contend with. His older brother has learning difficulties and is languishing in a care home. Listening to his heart rather than his head, the boy knows he must get his brother, nicknamed Simple, out. But as their father is entirely preoccupied with his new wife, it is up to the boy to liberate Simple, and that means finding somewhere for them to live in the city.