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Title: Brother, I'm Dying
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Manufacturer: Knopf
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| Brother, I'm Dying by Knopf tribute to enduring love and generosity | | What resonates throughout this book is the love and generosity between the families of two brothers. I think the writing is not bad, but rather unremarkable, full of emotions, but lack of deeper recflections or insight. | | Brother, I'm Dying by Knopf Great book, fast read. | | This book is a clear, beautifully written story of a family and their struggles, life and death, and the way we connect to our relatives. The tone is easy to read, and Danticat sheds light on life in Haiti (and as an immigrant) in an accessible, personal way. | | Brother, I'm Dying by Knopf The enduring love of families | | After reading this book, you're left with the knowledge that, at the end of the day, the love your family has for you is the sweetest, most enduring safety net you'll ever have. The struggles that Edwidge and her family go through, to stay together and prosper are, while not unique, daunting. Brother, I'm Dying gives you, the reader, the chance to walk for a while in the shoes of an immigrant to the U.S. It may change the way you think about our immigration policies and the raging debate about our borders. | | Brother, I'm Dying by Knopf needs polishing | | This story would have been more effective by "showing rather than telling." The author also puts the emphasis of the story on the negative events themselves, rather than the courage and perseverance of the individuals who experienced them. In this manner, the reader feels the author's intention is to evoke pity, rather than the admiration that the individuals actually deserve. The book also seems to be an outlet for displaced anger as it focuses more emotion and hostility toward US immigration practices than it does toward the people committing atrocities in Haiti. The book falls short of explaining why Haiti is in such extreme prolonged turmoil, and the effect it has on its people. This leaves its US readers with a lack of understanding, similar to the author's lack of understanding of US practices (which are presented as being primarily unfair or biased). This book will be popular among those who relish Anti-American sentiment, but those seeking a greater understanding of the Haitian people and their struggle will be disappointed. | | Brother, I'm Dying by Knopf "Brother, I'm Dying" | | Beautiful book--very nice jacket; elegaic memoir of the Haitian uncle who raised her and tragically died on immigration hold when sick and over 80 entering this country to escape chaos & a probable vendetta revenge death in Haiti; recommended for anyone interested in women's biography, Haiti, the power of family ties, cross-cultural identities (esp. those of Carib-Americans), and up & coming younger writers. The first chapter reminded me of the first chapter in Bliss Broyard's book on her father, "One Drop", where the book starts out her identity journey as her father lays dying. Bliss may perhaps be the better writer, but this is a sweet book, delicately observed and written with a great deal of composure, given all the tragic events. Would like to read more by Edwidge Danticat. | | Brother, I'm Dying by Knopf Product Description | From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to her heart—her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph.
From the age of four, Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, as her “second father,” when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for a better life in America. Listening to his sermons, sharing coconut-flavored ices on their walks through town, roaming through the house that held together many members of a colorful extended family, Edwidge grew profoundly attached to Joseph. He was the man who “knew all the verses for love.”
And so she experiences a jumble of emotions when, at twelve, she joins her parents in New York City. She is at last reunited with her two youngest brothers, and with her mother and father, whom she has struggled to remember. But she must also leave behind Joseph and the only home she’s ever known.
Edwidge tells of making a new life in a new country while fearing for the safety of those still in Haiti as the political situation deteriorates. But Brother I’m Dying soon becomes a terrifying tale of good people caught up in events beyond their control. Late in 2004, his life threatened by an angry mob, forced to flee his church, the frail, eighty-one-year-old Joseph makes his way to Miami, where he thinks he will be safe. Instead, he is detained by U.S. Customs, held by the Department of Homeland Security, brutally imprisoned, and dead within days. It was a story that made headlines around the world. His brother, Mira, will soon join him in death, but not before he holds hope in his arms: Edwidge’s firstborn, who will bear his name—and the family’s stories, both joyous and tragic—into the next generation.
Told with tremendous feeling, this is a true-life epic on an intimate scale: a deeply affecting story of home and family—of two men’s lives and deaths, and of a daughter’s great love for them both. |
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