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My Brother

Jamaica Kincaid

#2210 of 3,809 books · #796 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1997).

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.

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Publisher
Picador
ISBN-13
9781250340603
Topics
AIDS and lossFamily relationshipsAntigua and Caribbean life

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