My Brother
Jamaica Kincaid
160 pages
Controlled and fearless perfectionCarolyn See, Washington Post
A sustained meditation on the grinding wheel of family, with mother always at the hub; on the countries of our past, both real and emotional, which we have fled and in which we have felt like strangers; on death as a devastating injury and dying as an irritating inconvenience . . . a memoir about death that portrays it as it is, not as we would have it be, as we so often tailor it both in memoir and fictionAnna Quindlen, New York Times Book Review
Visceral and wrenching, this is a memoir of mourning . . . Kincaid's revelations are both intoxicating and redeemingRené Graham, Boston Sunday Globe