Description
Finalist for the 1997 National Book Award 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.
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 07/16/2024
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.48w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9781250340603
ISBN10: 1250340608
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Family & Relationships | Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Social Science | Sociology | Marriage & Family
About the Author
Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, Mr. Potter, and See Now Then. She teaches at Harvard University and lives in Vermont.