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Edwidge Danticat

/ September 30, 2007 / Brother, I'm Dying

Edwidge DanticatEdwidge Danticat’s searing family memoir, Brother, I’m Dying, ricochets from Haiti to Brooklyn, and bounces between the two most important men in the writers’ life: her dad and his brother. When Danticat’s mother and father moved to the United States to pursue a better life for their children, Uncle Joseph devoted eight years to raising Edwidge and her brother before they could be re-united with their parents in New York. Joseph’s death in the custody of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security set this book in motion, but Danticat’s stories of her turbulent and evocative homeland are at the core of all her beloved best-sellers: Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994). Krik? Krak! (1995), The Farming of Bones, (1998) and The Dew Breaker (2004).Listen Now

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