Brother, I'm Dying (Vintage Contemporaries)

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Bentley, July 22, 2010 (view all comments by Bentley)
This is a beautiful memoir about the lives and deaths of two brothers who are fathers to Danticat. Without being preachy, Danticat also shows us some of the human implications of policy decisions. Very moving and hard to put down. I didn't want to let it go even when I reached the end of the book.

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FBB, January 14, 2010 (view all comments by FBB)
The current disaster in Haiti reminds me of Danticat's "Brother, I'm Dying," a non-fiction memoir of sorts, wherein the author shares the beauty of her native Haiti, along with her memories of its people, her people, not once mukking in the "stereotypical," negative views we Americans [or at least, this one] may hold of that country. Instead Danticat's story is more about love: between a young girl & her country; a daughter with her extended family; and a brother [one still in Haiti, the other in the United States] with his brother. Although the the culmination of these brothers' relationship with one another is terribly sad, the work as a whole provides the reader with many images and memories of a beloved country: of an extended family and their love for one another, and a daughter's [Danticat] love for her uncle and father, and her people. Danticat provides us with an inside look at a UN intervention that treated her native Haiti so very badly, whether intended or not. I highly recommend this book; you will learn so much about Haiti that you may never have known, and you will grow to love Danticat and her family that that will stay with you. I promise.

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Kim Berry, October 30, 2008 (view all comments by Kim Berry)
This was a good book. Edwidge talks about how her parents left Haiti, went to New York, and left her and her brother to be raised by their aunt and uncle. The uncle had some medical problems and he went to New York for medical care and then went back to Haiti. Edwidge's parents birthed two more children in the U.S., allowing them to stay in New York. They eventually sent for Edwidge and her brother to go live in New York with them. The book discusses the conditions of Haiti, which are very poor and sad. She describes the closeness of her family and tells the story of just how difficult it is to leave a country to come to the U.S. It makes you feel very blessed living in the U.S. compared to their living conditions.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9781400034307

Author:

Danticat, Edwidge

Publisher:

Vintage Books USA

Subject:

Personal Memoirs

Subject:

Women

Subject:

Native Americans

Subject:

Authors, American

Subject:

Emigration and immigration

Subject:

Authors, American -- 20th century.

Subject:

General Biography

Subject:

Biography - General

Copyright:

2008

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series:

Vintage Contemporaries

Publication Date:

20080931

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

288

Dimensions:

8 x 5.16 x .85 in .625 lb