My Brother

My Brother
ISBN-10
1466828862
ISBN-13
9781466828865
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
197
Language
English
Published
1998-11-09
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author
Jamaica Kincaid

Description

Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families. My Brother is a 1997 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

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