Who Will Remain: Race, class and tough choices

There are some choices you must make in life which truly feel like being at a crossroads. For Amir, the student protagonist of Kasim Ali’s second novel Who Will Remain?, that moment arrives when his childhood friend Adnan rocks up, now a savvy and loaded drug dealer. “These streets are paved with gold,” Adnan says of inner-city Birmingham. “You just need to know where to look.”