Brother, I'm Dying
- ISBN-10
- 1400041155
- ISBN-13
- 9781400041152
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- Edwidge Danticat
Description
In a personal memoir, the author describes her relationships with the two men closest to her--her father and his brother, Joseph, a charismatic pastor with whom she lived after her parents emigrated from Haiti to the United States.
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