Title: Brother, I’m
Dying
Author: Edwidge
Danticat
Genre: Memoir
Performed by: Robin
Miles
Publisher/Date: Recorded Books/2007
Dates listened to: 4/16/17
– 4/25/17
CDs/Hours: 7/8
ISBN: 978-1-4281-6631-8
Ms. Danticat is an award-winning, best-selling author. In this book she uses her story-telling
abilities to describe how both her father and his brother, her uncle, dealt
with their debilitating illnesses. When
Edwidge was only four years old, her parents emigrated from Haiti to New York
in search of a better life. They left
their daughter with Uncle Joseph, a peaceful pastor in Port-au-Prince. He raised her with the love and devotion of a
father, despite facing many hardship in politically turbulent Haiti. Finally, at age 12 Edwidge was reunited to
her parents and forced to confront the inevitably complex emotions.
As Kirkus Reviews reports, Brother, I’m Dying is an “exceptionally
gripping memoir” that “avoids sentimentality in smoothly honed prose that is
nonetheless redolent with emotion.”
I totally agree. It’s
like Haiti’s current situation is no different now than then, the then being
the early 1970s. I found it
particularly heart-wrenching in those places where human kindness is lacking and not just in Haiti.
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