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I too am a writer – or, as yet unpublished, an aspiring writer. I have reached the point in my endeavors to contact an author whose work has inspired me or has in some other way touched me. I have enjoyed a great many of your books. I today finished Brother I’m Dying. My sister and I lost our father to cancer just over a month ago. My wife thought the read would be of some comfort. I have since added it to my list of tough yet necessary reads, alongside A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J. Gaines.
One side of my father’s family emigrated from Guyana (or British Guiana as his grandparents had known it); my wife’s family is from the Bahamas. While the storyline touches on many things, in part paying tribute to your Caribbean heritage, imparting insight into the Haitian/Haitian-American experience as do many of your works. Brother I’m Dying largely centers on the loss of your father, your uncle. Today it is that shared experience of losing someone so dear, two fathers according to the account so eloquently portrayed in the book, which inspired me to write.
It is not part of my culture, a native tongue inherited from one or the other of my parents. Enfin, je parle francais. Pa creole, je regrette. Mais francais, un peu. En votre langue, je tiens a vous dire – Merci, beaucoup.
Kind Regards,
Jedah Mayberry
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Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
jedah.mayberry, May 8, 2010
I too am a writer – or, as yet unpublished, an aspiring writer. I have reached the point in my endeavors to contact an author whose work has inspired me or has in some other way touched me. I have enjoyed a great many of your books. I today finished Brother I’m Dying. My sister and I lost our father to cancer just over a month ago. My wife thought the read would be of some comfort. I have since added it to my list of tough yet necessary reads, alongside A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J. Gaines.One side of my father’s family emigrated from Guyana (or British Guiana as his grandparents had known it); my wife’s family is from the Bahamas. While the storyline touches on many things, in part paying tribute to your Caribbean heritage, imparting insight into the Haitian/Haitian-American experience as do many of your works. Brother I’m Dying largely centers on the loss of your father, your uncle. Today it is that shared experience of losing someone so dear, two fathers according to the account so eloquently portrayed in the book, which inspired me to write.
It is not part of my culture, a native tongue inherited from one or the other of my parents. Enfin, je parle francais. Pa creole, je regrette. Mais francais, un peu. En votre langue, je tiens a vous dire – Merci, beaucoup.
Kind Regards,
Jedah Mayberry
(4 of 6 readers found this comment helpful)