by Edwidge Danticat · Knopf · tapa dura · ISBN 9781400041152
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«Brother, I'm Dying» is Edwidge Danticat's memoir, published by Knopf in 2007, in hardcover (288 pages, in English).
The author recalls her childhood in Haiti in the care of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, while her parents emigrated to the United States. The book interweaves the family reunion in New York and the political threat over Haiti in a memoir about exile, fatherhood, and the bonds that sustain a family divided between two countries.
The work received the National Book Critics Circle Award (2007), the Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2008), and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2008).
For readers of memoirs and Caribbean literature interested in stories of immigration, family, and the Haitian diaspora.
Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or edited several books and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. Her work has dealt with themes of national identity, mother-daughter relationships, and diasporic politics. In 2023, she was named the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.
