false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170711321m/69718.jpg 69718 10 Compassion only occasionally lightens the grim tone of Jamaica Kincaid's searing account of her younger brother Devon's 1996 death from AIDS. As in novels such as <i>Annie John</i>, Kincaid is ruthlessly honest about her ambivalence toward the impoverished Caribbean nation from which she fled, her restrictive family, and the culture that imprisoned Devon. That honesty, which includes chilling detachment from her brother's suffering, is sometimes alienating. But art has its own justifications. The bitter clarity of Kincaid's prose and the tangled, undeniably human feelings it lucidly dissects are justification enough. 2646979 1997 My Brother total:236|5:41|4:84|3:83|2:21|1:7| 236 839 311 26 3 0 false false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 09:26:25 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 10:48:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 15:31:10 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 09:12:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 04 05:49:54 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 04 11:35:17 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Sep 20 09:30:14 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 09:38:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 17:06:31 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 17:11:29 -0800 2009 repetitive until and unless you accept the fact that
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repeated litanies, with variations, seem a necessary
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