My Brother
Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Family Relationships, Death/Grief/Bereavement, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Jamaica Kincaid | ISBN: | 9781466828865 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Publication: | November 9, 1998 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jamaica Kincaid |
| ISBN: | 9781466828865 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication: | November 9, 1998 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
