My Brother
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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.
My Brother is a 1997 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
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Jamaica Kincaid. (1998). My Brother. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Jamaica Kincaid. 1998. My Brother. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
MLA Citation (style guide)Jamaica Kincaid. My Brother. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
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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, and My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont.
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September 29, 1997
"I became a writer out of desperation, so when I first heard my brother was dying I was familiar with the act of saving myself: I would write about him." The result of Kincaid's self-preserving urge is a memoir that has less to do with her AIDS-afflicted, Rastafarian brother (whom she knew only slightly as an adult) than with recent visits to her native Antigua during which she helped her mother nurse him. It will surprise none of Kincaid's devotees that the memoir's dominant tone is measured rage, an attitude toward her family so passionate that it can make you wince. It's still shocking to read a middle-aged woman claim that she and her mother hate each other. And yet Kincaid is one of our pre-eminent prose stylists. Her exasperations, furies and regrets fall out with all the naturalness of spoken observations on the weather ("for young people are always beautiful until they are not, until they just are not") and sound just as believable. Although this memoir contains very little public grieving of the balled-handkerchief sort (Kincaid reserves that for her father-in-law and former editor at the New Yorker, the recently deceased William Shawn), it is all the more poignant for its austerity--and if it has "saved" Kincaid, it has also preserved her troubling, troubled family more credibly than perhaps any gentler book could have done.
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