My Brother

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.

Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 11/09/1998
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.31h x 5.59w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780374525620
Language: English