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Returning to Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return (2001) in light of its scholarly reception and Brand's subsequent works, this article focuses on narration as a form of post-colonial redress with particular attention to Brand's use of second-person narration as a device of counter-estrangement. Taking a cue from Brian Richardson's description of the second person as an "unnatural" register of narration, it explores Brand's use of the second person as a voice of commingled alterity that has strong ethical implications for readers. With Brand's analysis of "what sits in narrative" in An Autobiography of an Autobiography of Reading (2020) as a hermeneutic, the article demonstrates how, by blurring the gap between narratee and reader, Brand puts the reader "in the room with history". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]