My Brother

Type

Book

Authors

Kincaid, Jamaica

ISBN 10

0374525625

ISBN 13

9780374525620

Tags

Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Memoir, Biographies, Biography, AIDS, HIV, Grief, Bereavement, Family, Racialized, Black subject, Black Subjects, African American, Race, Masculinity, United States, North American

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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