Brother, I’m Dying

Finalist, National Book Awards 2007 for Nonfiction

Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat book cover, 2007
ISBN 9781400034307
Alfred A. Knopf
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Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat is the author of The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist; Claire of the Sea Light, a New York Times Notable Book; Brother, I’m Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award Finalist; The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah’s Book Club selection; and Krik? Krak!, also a National Book Award Finalist. More about this author >

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In this affecting memoir, the author tells the story of her two fathers — her dad and her uncle – and her family’s own diaspora between Haiti and the United States.

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