Brother, I'm Dying

Nov 26, 2007 Kirby rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Danticat hands you her story and walks away. Her writing style is stark here (my first time reading her); the facts are heavy, but she doesn't tug the reader one way or another or mandate sentiment. She relays her tale and then she is done. Damn. Very effective.

I thought most about "absence" on a few levels after finishing it. The literal absence of her parents and extended family at different periods of her life due to political strife and economic necessity. The unjustified absence of faith by...more

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Jul 19, 2008 Judy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Almost ten years ago I read Edwidge Danticat's beautiful, lyrical novel "The Farming of Bones." That book and her other works focus on the turbulent Haitian experience, especially for women. This memoir, which won this year's National Book Critics Circle Award, tells the story of her childhood in Haiti and immigration to New York at age twelve, but instead of being centered around the female experience, it is really the story of the relationship of her father, who immigrated to NYC with Edwidge'...more

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Sep 14, 2007 Courtney Payne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is devastatingly good. Especially once you get to the second half of the book. I caught myself holding my breath as I read. I just could not believe what I was reading. Danticat tells the story of her family so beautifully. The descriptions of her two sets of parents (her aunt and uncle raised her for some time in Haiti, when her parents came to America to get settled. She eventually moved to America, but many of her formative years were with her aunt and uncle.) This story mostly focu...more

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May 05, 2008 Michelle rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I need to stop telling people "This is a book about a lady that grew up in Haiti with her uncle. Her uncle died, around the same time her father died, and she had a baby in between those times." (I'm not spoiling this for anybody; it says all of that stuff in the jacket of the book." I mean, that just sounds depressing, and overall, the book is not.

First of all, the book is really well written. Very simple language, but powerful. Characters, situations, feelings come across.

This was a book for...more

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Dec 19, 2007 Laura rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone who wants to know me better

I am not Haitian. But you will know me better if you read this, because the author has had such an influence on my passions and what I have studied. This book is biographical. I've read and own the 4 other major books written by Edwidge Danticat, and they are my most (and possibly only) lent books. If you ever wondered why I wrote so much about Haiti in college, take a read.

I don't know if I should recommend this book out of order from the other ones, or possibly if this should be the starting p...more I am not Haitian. But you will know me better if you read this, because the author has had such an influence on my passions and what I have studied. This book is biographical. I've read and own the 4 other major books written by Edwidge Danticat, and they are my most (and possibly only) lent books. If you ever wondered why I wrote so much about Haiti in college, take a read.

I don't know if I should recommend this book out of order from the other ones, or possibly if this should be the starting point. The other books written by Danticat were fiction, or fictionalized history. They are all very sad, very stirring, but this one I think is most powerful to me because it is non-fiction, and I am highly aware of this because I read about some of the events described in this book as they were happening before they were written. I didn't feel like an outsider reading the news about a faraway place, but like I could be there and see the tragedy as someone who was living it. And further, I found that it helped me see that there are not sides to take, and even people in the center of the chaos have not made sense of it, can only grieve.

Besides the tremendous writing and that I've read all the books written before this by Danticat, Brother I'm Dying appeals to the part of me who studied ethics. It stirs in me the same strong feeling as I believe the author feels, that something about the world's view of Haiti and Haitians is skewed. I feel like the author perhaps struggled to not reveal personal political sentiments, but to focus on her family and their personal struggles that were influenced by outside forces. And for the first time in her writing, I think I saw the author not romanticize Haiti, but start to reveal the more violent, tragic side of things. Truthfully, she has never romanticized the country, but wrote so beautifully as to make the reader forget that all she wrote of was death and brutality and tragedy.

About the actual story... It is not entirely linear. Simultaneously, Edwidge discovers she's pregnant as her father slowly dies a painful death and the uncle who raised her is destroyed by the forces at work in Haiti: his church and house are burned and looted, he is threatened with beheading, bravely escapes Haiti, only to die seeking asylum in the US. This should not be considered a spoiler. I read about her uncle in the news when he died, because she is a very well-known author with some powerful connections and it was rather sudden and shocking. The brilliancy of the story is the back story, finally learning where Edwidge came from and some of the experiences she has drawn upon that have influenced the books I've already read. Before the brutal end are the endless struggles, the folk tales, the sweet moments, the connections, the emotions and memories.

In short, I could not set this book down and have felt compelled to write a book review, the first I've ever written voluntarily and fully. I hope someone besides a Haitian friend at work will read this book, and maybe someone else will understand why I am so moved, rather than be repulsed like so many who shut out the outside world, preferring the isolation and denial of the problems faced in nations of upheaval, thereby not moving a resolution any closer to arrival.(less)

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Dec 17, 2007 Lauren rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Wow. If I thought I couldn't possibly lose even more respect for this president, his administration, his Homeland Security, and his policies, I was wrong.

This book is yet another reason why we should be very angry and should really work for change in whatever way we can.

This is a very intimate book. By the end, you feel as though you should be coming over with food for the family. I had always known bits and pieces about Haitian history from my years studying the French language, but now I real...more

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Mar 08, 2009 Chris rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

After reading Kidder’s Mountain Beyond Mountain about Dr. Farmer, Brother I’m Dying was an eloquent and welcomed portrait of the life of one Haitian family. This book adds a third dimension to the sketch of Haiti we get from Farmer through Kidder. Danticat is no less than graceful in painting the full picture of living, loving and dying in her family all against the backdrop of a constantly flailing Haiti. This is a great book for college classrooms, book clubs, or well – anyone who loves their...more

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Feb 19, 2008 Lisa rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A deeply moving story of a Haitian woman and her family during the past three decades. Left behind at the age of 4 with her 2 year old brother, Edwidge Danticat spends 10 years in the care of her aunt and uncle in Haiti while her parents try to start a new live in New York. Eventually the family is united in N.Y., where Edwidge must start a new life with parents she barely knows and two new younger brothers. As she grows older she forms a close bond with her parents while maintaining her ties wi...more

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Dec 28, 2008 Bookreaderljh rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I learned so much about the political turmoil in Haiti through this book but the family story is what is just so compelling!! Still - the ending was so unbelievably sad that the last 30 pages were difficult to read as the tears running down my face kept smearing the words.

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Mar 15, 2009 Lisa Silverman rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A powerful story told with restraint, but while it was interesting from a cultural/political point of view, I wasn't as wowed by the writing as I expected from all the accolades.

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Feb 11, 2010 The Awdude rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Danticat's intimate prose makes you feel like you're part of her family whose story this memoir narrates. Not only is it heartbreaking and beautiful; it's also a terrifying validation of postcolonial theorists' fears about globalization. It's difficult to maintain the "proud to be an american" mindset when, narratively speaking, the united states chooses to be the antagonist of so many stories like this one. Read Danticat for her absolutely beautiful writing... but also read her for the sake of...more

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Feb 13, 2009 Barbara rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: memoir

Edwidge Danticat's memoir about her father and his brother, with whom she lived for a large chunk of her childhood, is a sad and upsetting story. Both men were significant figures in her life, and in this book she pays homage to them. Her father and mother left her and her brother in Haiti while they established themselves in New York. During that time, she lived with her uncle, a pastor and political activist, in Port-au-Prince. Much later, shortly after Danticat married and moved to Miami, her...more

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Jan 16, 2009 Kathleen Hagen added it · review of another edition

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Brother I am Dying, by Edwidge Danticat. A. Narrated by Robin Miles. Produced by recorded Books and downloaded from audible.com.

Edwidge and her brother were left with their uncle Joseph, a pastor in Haiti, while her parents emigrated from Haiti to New York to find a better life. Several years later, her parents, who had had two more children in the meantime, came back to Haiti to get the children. This is Edwidge’s story about the always continuing unrest in Haiti, and her move to the United Sta...more

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Dec 22, 2008 Carol rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this book while sitting up half the night on duty at a homeless shelter. It was a good setting in which to read the book, particularly the second half. I was in the position, albeit a volunteer one, of the guards in the Krome detention center featured in the book, the one of authority and keeping order and following regulations. Institutions are by their nature, I think, regulatory—the need for rules, for all to be treated the same—is high. And yet one must always look for ways to humaniz...more

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Mar 20, 2013 Deanne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read it straight through and broke a lifelong short-story preference for non-fiction, literary works of length. On this one, when it came out. With an income that made me reading-matter-challenged, the kind where a kid loses 2 good library books,at once, at ones,had to have brought them to school; never went anywhere else; butttttt. Never could pay the steep fine after a month accrued.This was for 15 years--with the computer era ushered in, libraries no longer forgot you.
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Sep 20, 2012 Abbe added it · review of another edition

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Starred Review. In a single day in 2004, Danticat (_Breath, Eyes, Memory_; The Farming of Bones) learns that she's pregnant and that her father, André, is dying—a stirring constellation of events that frames this Haitian immigrant family's story, rife with premature departures and painful silences. When Danticat was two, André left Haiti for the U.S., and her mother followed when Danticat was four. The author and her brother could not join their parents for eight years, d

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Starred Review. In a single day in 2004, Danticat (_Breath, Eyes, Memory_; The Farming of Bones) learns that she's pregnant and that her father, André, is dying—a stirring constellation of events that frames this Haitian immigrant family's story, rife with premature departures and painful silences. When Danticat was two, André left Haiti for the U.S., and her mother followed when Danticat was four. The author and her brother could not join their parents for eight years, during which André's brother Joseph raised them. When Danticat was nine, Joseph—a pastor and gifted orator—lost his voice to throat cancer, making their eventual separation that much harder, as he wouldn't be able to talk with the children on the phone. Both André and Joseph maintained a certain emotional distance through these transitions. Danticat writes of a Haitian adage, Â 'When you bathe other people's children, you should wash one side and leave the other side dirty.' I suppose this saying cautions those who care for other people's children not to give over their whole hearts. In the end, as Danticat prepares to lose her ailing father and give birth to her daughter, Joseph is threatened by a volatile sociopolitical clash and forced to flee Haiti. He's then detained by U.S. Customs and neglected for days. He unexpectedly dies a prisoner while loved ones await news of his release. Poignant and never sentimental, this elegant memoir recalls how a family adapted and reorganized itself over and over, enduring and succeeding to remain kindred in spite of living apart. (Sept.)
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Edwidge Danticat's father and uncle chose very different paths: the former struggled to make a new life for himself in America, while the latter remained in the homeland he paradoxically loved. In following their lives and their impact on future generations, Danticat's powerful family memoir explores how the private and the political, the past and the present, intersect. The most poignant section focuses on Joseph's tragic trip to the United States at age 81, but Danticat also tells a wider story about family and exile, the Haitian diaspora, the Duvalier regime, and post-9/11 immigration policy. Emotionally resonant and exceptionally clear-eyed, Brother, I'm Dying offers insight into a talented writer, her family history, and the injustices of the modern world.

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Sep 14, 2012 Judy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Around the world readers

Shelves: bio-memoir, haiti, non-fiction, 2012-reads, audiobook-e-book

What a nice memoir of Danticat's uncle and father as well as recollection of her pregnancy and birth of her first child. Not in the mood for a depressing read,I was hesitant to listen to this book. It wasn't depressing. What it was was an excellent recounting of what it was like to live in Haiti during UN occupations and unstable governments, as well as a look at living in New York City or Miami when you are Haitian.

Danticat has an easy style. I found it refreshing after reading and listening t...more

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May 13, 2011 CELIA rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm so glad Danticat is getting more attention these days. She's not just a wonderful Haitian writer, she's a wonderful writer, period. Nevertheless, it's also important to read about Haiti and the Haitian experience in something other than the newspaper, to recognize its artists and culture. This is a beautifully crafted family memoir centered on the lives of Danticat's two father figures, her real father whom she was separated from for many years as a child while they tried to relocate the fam...more I'm so glad Danticat is getting more attention these days. She's not just a wonderful Haitian writer, she's a wonderful writer, period. Nevertheless, it's also important to read about Haiti and the Haitian experience in something other than the newspaper, to recognize its artists and culture. This is a beautifully crafted family memoir centered on the lives of Danticat's two father figures, her real father whom she was separated from for many years as a child while they tried to relocate the family to the US, and her paternal uncle, who raised her in Haiti while they were away. The narrative weaves back and forth in time and from Haiti to the US, developing a comparison in the lives of those who leave and those who stay behind. Moreover, I really enjoyed Danticat's style, her bare-bones presentation of the sometimes harrowing experiences her family went through as they struggled to survive Haiti's turbulent politics and the price of emigration. This is not a book full of landscape nostalgia or some of the other markers of "tropical" literature I hate.

My only beef with the book is that the politics aren't more overt. Danticat gives us just enough to help us understand the events her family must go through, but with a rather suppressed personal investment that left me wondering why she didn't push the politics further. Given that the book is a family memoir, not a political one, this may be a savvy choice, but at the same time this family's history is inseparable from the politics that separated it. In particular, the final chapters, involving her uncle's attempt to gain asylum in the US after he becomes persecuted in Haiti, seem too controlled. Clearly, there is a whirlwind of despair in these events involving lawyers, doctors, and sheer rage against the US that Danticat does not allow to take center stage. During these final chapters, especially, I wished for a personal memoir more than a family one, one in which Danticat explored her own feelings about what it means to be an immigrant, especially an immigrant artist.

Overall, however, this is a book that stays with you. Her unflinching portrayal of her father's illness is really, really moving. In anyone else's hands, such a story would devolve into melodrama, but Danticat is able to craft these lives into a narrative that transcends the ordinary nature of these extraordinary experiences. I had not read anything this impactful in years.(less)

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Dec 13, 2010 Dacia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This was a powerful book. I can't say I knew much about Haiti before I read this book. I mean, I knew it was an incredibly poor country that shared Hispanola with the Dominican Republic. I knew that it got hit by a devestating earthquake earlier this year and that more recently there had been a cholera outbreak. I aborbed, via new coverage, that the capital was Port-au-Prince (just had to look up the spelling). Oh, I'd also heard at some point that milk cost almost $10 a gallon there, but I don'...more

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Oct 29, 2010 Jean rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: aging-death-disease, big-picture, memoir-female, not-the-us, relationship-parent-child, social-justice

The book jacket describes this as “an astonishing true-life epic”, and that’s true. But it also feels endearingly small and personal, straight from the heart of the child and young woman the author was. It’s not, as I expected, mostly an indictment of US immigration employees questionably detaining – essentially jailing-- a sick, elderly Haitian man – though it certainly lays out what was probably stupidity and bias accompanying.

It’s more the story of what happened after the author was left beh...more

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Mar 19, 2010 Melissa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Completed: 10/09

Snapshot: In this memoir, Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat tells of the lives and deaths of her father and his brother, who raised her in Haiti until she was 12 years old. She narrates her fond memories of these men, but this is no sentimental family story: necessarily she tells also of the horrible political events, the trying illnesses, and the personal regret that fill these men’s lives as one settles in the United States and the other stays behind in Haiti until he...more

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Jan 16, 2010 Michele Weiner rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved this book, which is the story of the author and her family in Haiti and in the US. It is probably pointless to go into the details. Her father left for the US to escape Haiti, while his brother remained. The ending is very sad. And shameful. I hope you'll read it. Tonight I watched CNN long enough to see that an effort to distribute high-protein biscuits to the earthquake survivors in Haiti ended with the UN truck and volunteers being forced to abandon a huge group of citizens after some...more

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Dec 15, 2009 AJ Conroy marked it as to-read · review of another edition

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Recommendation from Jezebel:
The beginning of this book made me tear up on the subway, and the ending made me shiver. Danticat writes about her childhood separation from her parents — they moved to the United States while she and her brother stayed in Haiti — their eventual reunion, her father's illness and death, and her uncle's ill-fated attempt to gain asylum in America with language whose matter-of-factness and precision become a perfect conduit for love, fear, regret, and outrage. It's impos...more

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Jul 15, 2009 Lisa Mettauer rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: memoir, nonfiction

It’s not often that I don’t finish a book. But I put this one down one day and never got back to it. I wanted to like it. I’ve read some of Edwidge Danticat’s fiction and loved her lyrical language and her sense of place. But her family history, Brother, I’m Dying, just didn’t keep my interest, and certainly did not show the same beautiful language of her other books. But maybe you should decide for yourself. It was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography.

Danticat...more It’s not often that I don’t finish a book. But I put this one down one day and never got back to it. I wanted to like it. I’ve read some of Edwidge Danticat’s fiction and loved her lyrical language and her sense of place. But her family history, Brother, I’m Dying, just didn’t keep my interest, and certainly did not show the same beautiful language of her other books. But maybe you should decide for yourself. It was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography.

Danticat was born in Haiti, right around Duvalier’s time. The country is a mess politically, with people disappearing and being murdered, rank with poverty. Danticat’s dad emigrates to New York when she is 2, followed by her mother, when she is 4. She and her younger brother are left in the care of her Uncle Joseph, a pastor. It ends up being 8 years before she joins her parents. In the meantime, Joseph, a sweet and caring man, loses his voice to throat cancer, and cannot preach to his flock, something he lived for. Danticat becomes his interpreter, helping him on his trips to shops and doctors. But it also makes the separation from her parents much more difficult, since her father would call Joseph and would share much more information with him than with his very young daughter.

Eventually her parents bring her to New York, where she does not feel part of the family she belongs to. She has 2 more brothers, who immediately take to their older siblings. But the long separation has taken an emotional toll.

The story is told in 2 time periods, the past and the near present, when Danticat finds out she is pregnant at about the same time that she finds out her dad is dying from a lung ailment. Her dad is very accepting of his situation and works at preparing his family for the inevitability of his death.

And this is where I stopped. Maybe my expectations were too high for this book. But the emotional distance she felt throughout her life, seemed very apparent in her writing. It seemed as if she was writing a news story in very simple language with very little subjectivity or emotional connection involved. I don’t get it, either, because all the reviews I read rave about it. Maybe if I had hung on, through the total implosion of Haiti and Joseph’s doomed final trip to the United States, it would have resonated more for me. But maybe I also stopped just in time. Reading once again about a country who treats people like chattel (and I’m not mentioning which country here) is just too painful.
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Feb 07, 2013 Clif Hostetler rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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The author grabbed my attention with the first sentence:

"I found out I was pregnant the same day that my father’s rapid weight loss and chronic shortness of breath were positively diagnosed as end-stage pulmonary fibrosis."

This sentence let me know that the book was going to be about life, death and family relationships. It's also about the immigrant experience, Haitian political violence and cruel actions of ICE*.
*Immigration and Customs Enforcement

I was emotionally drawn into the story, and s...more The author grabbed my attention with the first sentence:

"I found out I was pregnant the same day that my father’s rapid weight loss and chronic shortness of breath were positively diagnosed as end-stage pulmonary fibrosis."

This sentence let me know that the book was going to be about life, death and family relationships. It's also about the immigrant experience, Haitian political violence and cruel actions of ICE*.
*Immigration and Customs Enforcement

I was emotionally drawn into the story, and soon I became concerned for the family's welfare. The book is a combination personal memoir and biography of her uncle and father. The uncle stayed in Haiti and for a number of years served in the role of the author's father. Through the uncle's story we learn about the Haitian experience. The author at age 12 was reunited with her father living in New York, and through his story we learn about the immigrant experience. During the period of the author's pregnancy ... (view spoiler)

This book is a tender look at the experience of immigrants and how immigration policies can be so cruel. It truly conveys the other side of the harsh treatment given to Haitians who fled the impossible political violence of 2004 when Aristide was forced into exile and UN peacekeepers were sent to Haiti.
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The following review is from PageADay's Book Lover's Calendar for 9/9/12:
A LIFE
As the praise attests, this National Book Critics Circle Award winner doesn’t come up short: “If Brother, I’m Dying does not break your heart, you don’t have one” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). “Heartwrenching, intimate” (San Francisco Chronicle), Edwidge Danticat’s memoir of Haiti and her family is deeply personal, but it also illuminates the broader landscape of a tragic country and the failures of American foreign policy. Danticat fled to join her parents in Brooklyn when she was 12. When her beloved uncle, who raised her, tries to follow after 9/11, he finds he waited too long. If you want to read a family story of exquisite love and longing, choose this.
BROTHER, I’M DYING , by Edwidge Danticat (Vintage, 2008)
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Apr 14, 2011 Nitya rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Listening to this excellent book on CD from the library. Savoring every moment of it. It is written with such heart. Edwidge Danticat recounts her childhood in Haiti, where she and her brother lived for 8 years, staying with her uncle Joseph and his wife Denise, while their parents settled in America, had 2 more children, and finally got the right to bring their older children to the U.S.

Eight years is a long time, especially in a child's life. Joseph and Denise, were surrogate parents to Edwid...more

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Mar 12, 2012 Magpie67 rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Nothing impressed me with this title. Lots of words that just rambled on and on and on. I just don't like these kind of books. I didn't enjoy I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and this book was similar to the title Brother I'm Dying, but it was only a 1 star read as much of that title made no sense to me. I think both these books won awards, but I can't feel the magic.

Truly, jumping around and describing Haiti like she did, was mind boggling to this outsider. I see from other reviews, I'm the mini...more

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Feb 05, 2009 Bookmarks Magazine added it · review of another edition

Edwidge Danticat's father and uncle chose very different paths: the former struggled to make a new life for himself in America, while the latter remained in the homeland he paradoxically loved. In following their lives and their impact on future generations, Danticat's powerful family memoir explores how the private and the political, the past and the present, intersect. The most poignant section focuses on Joseph's tragic trip to the United States at age 81, but Danticat also tells a wider stor

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Aug 10, 2012 Gorfo rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, coming-to-america, my-favorite-character-died, books-that-changed-my-life

Brother, I'm Dying cannot be described as anything other than a critical look at Death. With this autobiographical novel, Edwige Dandicat paints a somber picture of the way Death has influenced her life. In Dandicat's story death seems to be always lurking just around the bend, sometimes manifesting itself in tensions between varying Haitian political parties, sometimes between Americans who want to help but make things worse, and sometimes in the form of avoidable illness, and other times in...more

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Apr 26, 2010 Leslie Larson rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Brilliant, sad, and profoundly revealing of the depth of feeling within a family and the force that politics and economics bear on the course of that family's life. The thoughtfulness, grace, and warm yet elegant writing that inform Danticat's fiction are in full play here. You won't forget the two main characters—Danticat's father and uncle—or the tumultuous upheaval that roils Haiti during the period she depicts. More proof that Danticat's one of the brightest literary voices today.

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