⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I went into Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan knowing next to nothing about the Sri Lankan civil war—and came out shaken, educated, and deeply moved. Told in vivid first person, this novel pulls you straight into Sashi’s world. She begins as a bright sixteen-year-old in Jaffna, dreaming of becoming a doctor, but history has other plans. As the conflict escalates, her four beloved brothers—and their friend K—are drawn into the chaos, each making choices that fracture the family and haunt her. The novel also opened my eyes to the war itself, which began in 1983 after years of tension between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority. Anti-Tamil riots—especially “Black July”—ignited decades […]