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

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 ...

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Moods

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

Pace

slow 75%
medium 16%
fast 8%

Average rating

3.57

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