My Brother

Name: My Brother
Rating: 4.800000190734863 (5 reviews)

Jamaica Kincaid

1998-11 · Macmillan + ORM

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"Controlled and fearless perfection," this National Book Award–nominated memoir is a moving meditation on family and grief (Carolyn See, The Washington Post ).

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.

"A memoir about death that portrays it as it is, not as we would have it be, as we so often tailor it both in memoir and fiction." —Anna Quindlen, The New York Times Book Review

"Visceral and wrenching, this is a memoir of mourning . . . Kincaid's revelations are both intoxicating and redeeming." —Renée Graham, The Boston Sunday Globe

"Controlled and fearless perfection," this National Book Award–nominated memoir is a moving meditation on family and grief (Carolyn See, The Washington Post ). Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and of...

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Jamaica Kincaid's books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, A Small Place, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother. She lives in Vermont.

Jamaica Kincaid's books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, A Small Place, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother. She lives in Vermont.

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