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My Brother
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Summary
‘Controlled and fearless perfection’ - The Washington Post
Jamaica Kincaid’s brother Devon died of Aids on 19 January 1996 at the age of 33. This poetic and shockingly candid recounting of her brother’s life and death is also the story of her family in Antigua - centred round her destructive mother - and a portrait of an illness misunderstood.
From one of today’s most iconic writers, My Brother is a remarkable record of a life that ended too early. It speaks to the difficult truths at the heart of all families.
Now part of the Picador Collection
Critic reviews
'Controlled and fearless perfection.' (Carolyn See)
'A sustained meditation on the grinding wheel of family, with mother always at the hub; on the countries of our past, both real and emotional, which we have fled and in which we have felt like strangers; on death as a devastating injury and dying as an irritating inconvenience...a memoir about death that portrays it as it is, not as we would have it be, as we so often tailor it both in memoir and fiction.' (Anna Quindlen)
'Visceral and wrenching, this is a memoir of mourning... Kincaid's revelations are both intoxicating and redeeming.' (René Graham)