Brothers

Brothersis Nico Slate's poignant memoir about Peter Slate, akaXL, aBlack rapper and screenwriter whose life was tragically cut short. Nico and Peter shared the same White American mother but had different fathers. Nico's was White; Peter's was Black. Growing up in California in the 1980s and 1990s, Nico often forgot about their racial differences until one night in March 1994 when Peter was attacked by a White man in a nightclub in Los Angeles. Nico began writingBrotherswith the hope that investigating the attack would bring him closer to Peter. He could not understand that night, however, without grappling with the many ways race had long separated him from his brother. This is a memoir of loss-the loss of a life and the loss at the heart of our racial divide-but it is also a memoir of love.The love between Nico and Peter permeates every page ofBrothers.This achingly beautiful memoir presents one family's resilience on the fault lines of race in contemporary America.