My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid

My Brother

Jamaica Kincaid

197 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Description

My Brother Jamaica Kincaid\'s incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother\'s life and death is also the story of her family on the island of Antigua. "Visceral and wrenching, this is a memoir of mourning . . . Kincaid...

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Community Reviews Summary of 141 reviews

Moods

reflective 84%
sad 69%
emotional 61%
challenging 38%
dark 23%
informative 15%
funny 7%

Pace

slow 75%
medium 16%
fast 8%

Average rating

3.6

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