Judy's review
Brother, I'm Dying
by Edwidge Danticat
ooh - I bet Tyler would like this since he does his dental service trips to Haiti - and just loves the people (and feels like he's doing a much needed service for them - as opposed to when he's gone to a couple other countries - not as much need, but still a need)
Judy's review
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
Judy's review
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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's mother when Edwidge was only five, and his preacher brother, with whom he left Edwidge and her brother for seven years while he made a place for them in the United States. The book begins with Edwidge learning almost simultaneously that she is pregnant with her first child and that her father is dying of lung disease. Through a series of flashbacks we also learn of her uncle's throat cancer, radical laryngectomy, years of muteness, and discovery of an electronic voice box that cou...more
ooh - I bet Tyler would like this since he does his dental service trips to Haiti - and just loves the people (and feels like he's doing a much needed service for them - as opposed to when he's gone to a couple other countries - not as much need, but still a need)
