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3.5 stars rounded up to 4 - Edwidge Danticat writes of her love of her two fathers, the first Mira, her biological father, the second, Joseph, her uncle with whom she and brother, Bob lived when their parents moved from Haiti to the US. Danticat recounts her Uncle Joseph’s life, his political affiliation in the 1950s with Daniel Fignolé as well as her Granpè Nozial’s efforts as a guerrilla to repel the US invasion from 1915. When Joseph gives up politics, he turns to religion, building his own c...
The author grabbed my attention with the first sentence: "I found out I was pregnant the same day that my father’s rapid weight loss and chronic shortness of breath were positively diagnosed as end-stage pulmonary fibrosis." This sentence let me know that the book was going to be about life, death and family relationships. It's also about the immigrant experience, Haitian political violence and cruel actions of ICE*.*Immigration and Customs EnforcementI was emotionally drawn into the story, an...
Intelligent, thoughtful, and heartbreaking. A first-hand account of one man's ordeal, which illustrates in stark relief the way U.S. policies on immigration have combined with ignorance and systemic racism to cause untold suffering in Haitians. Danticat allows us to get to know her uncle in all his humanity and dignity before taking us step by step through his most terrible suffering and death at the hands of immigration officers. Most of this slim memoir is full of love and joy, even in the mid...
"She was leaving my body and going into the world, where she would spend the rest of her life moving away from me." Absolutely heartbreaking. But a wonderful introduction to Danticat's writing and a moving reflection on family, Haiti, and immigration policy.
In Brother, I’m Dying Danticat tells the stories of her father, Andre (aka Mira), and his brother---her uncle, Joseph, who along with his wife, Denise, raised Edwidge and her brother in Haiti while their parents immigrated and worked to prepare to bring the family together in New York in the 1970s and early 1980s; and how, in 2004, she lost these two men--- her father to pulmonary fibrosis, while her uncle, a pastor, languished in a detention center in Miami after fleeing gang threats in Haiti a...
“If our country were ever given a chance and allowed to be a country like any other, none of us would live or die here.” WOW…. ! I have to be honest, Edwidge Danticat’s writing is flawless. This is my first time reading something non-fiction written by Danticat and I was not disappointed. FLAWLESS!In Danticat’s memoir/non-fiction release Brother, I’m Dying she tells the story of her father Andre and his brother Uncle Joseph who acted as her second father while her Mother and Father migrated t...
After reading a number of equally excellent books concerning daughters, mothers and grandmothers, it is great to read about the special connections between a daughter and her two fathers, for Edwidge Danticat's writes of both her father Mira, who left Haiti for New York when she was 2 years old - and her Uncle Joseph, who treated her like a daughters for those nine long years that followed before she and her brothers Bob were able to join their parents and the two new brothers that had arrived i...
I am not Haitian. But you will know me better if you read this, because the author has had such an influence on my passions and what I have studied. This book is biographical. I've read and own the 4 other major books written by Edwidge Danticat, and they are my most (and possibly only) lent books. If you ever wondered why I wrote so much about Haiti in college, take a read.I don't know if I should recommend this book out of order from the other ones, or possibly if this should be the starting p...
There are no words I could write that can adequately capture the substance of this book. Beautifully written, this book chronicles Edwidge's Danticat's life, and the lives and deaths of her father and uncle, but it is more than a simple biography. It focuses more on her uncle, a man she came to think of as her second father when she and her brother were left with him in Haiti so her parents could build a life in New York, and bring them to the United States. It is also a chronicle of a country i...
This book is so wonderful. I loved this!This is a family memoir, and links several story pieces together more cohesively than almost any novel I've read in ages. It's beautifully done. Partly it is about the author's growing up in Haiti at her uncle's house, before moving to the U.S. at twelve to be with her parents (c. 1980). And partly it is a chronicle of the year that her father and uncle died, and in which she gave birth to her first child (c. 2004). Each of these pieces is a worthwhile sto...
So well writen and so devastatingly sad. Infuriating. Krome. How refugees are treated.😞
