num_pages: 208
description: Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families.My Brother is a 1997 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
language: English
title: My Brother
titlecomplete: My Brother
genres: Read For School, Biography, LGBT, School, Queer, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Family, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 1703
places: Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Prix Femina
category: Étranger, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux