![]() ![]() In Catherine Hernandez's debut, Scarborough, this landscape comes to life, populated by children whose parents, as with mine, didn't relax because they were in survival mode, trying to build a boat while they were sailing it. It's a place where cars rule, a place sadly and chronically underserved by transit, a place where quiet cookie-cutter subdivisions with manicured lawns co-exist with clusters of grey towers, six-lane avenues and big-box stores. In some areas, such as where my family first landed, that percentage is 90 per cent. ![]() Today, 70 per cent of Scarborough residents are a visible minority. Parents who spoke English without an accent were the exception. ![]() Growing up in Scarborough in the 1980s, the eastern swath of what's now Toronto, whether brown, black, white, or like me, with parents who came from a place the other kids hadn't heard of, we were all the children of immigrants. ![]()
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