Brother, I'm Dying

Summary

Award-winning, bestselling author Edwidge Danticat taps her exceptional storytelling gifts for this memoir of the two men who raised her.

When the author was only four years old, her parents emigrated from Haiti to New York in search of a better life, leaving their daughter in the care of her uncle Joseph. A peaceful pastor in Port-au-Prince, Joseph raised Edwidge with the love and devotion of a father, despite facing many hardships in politically turbulent Haiti. It wasn’t until she was 12 years old that Edwidge was finally reunited with her parents—and forced to confront the inevitably complex emotions.

Brother, I’m Dying is an “exceptionally gripping memoir” that “avoids sentimentality in smoothly honed prose that is nonetheless redolent with emotion” according to Kirkus Reviews. It is also a powerful, true story that shows, no matter what misfortunes life delivers, the strength of love and family cannot be underestimated.