My Brother
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Published:8th Aug '24
Should be back in stock very soon
Jamaica Kincaid's poweful and moving account of the life and death of her younger brother.
‘Controlled and fearless perfection’ - The Washington Post
Jamaica Kincaid’s brother Devon died of Aids on 19 January 1996 at the age of 33. This poetic and shockingly candid recounting of her brother’s life and death is also the story of her family in Antigua - centred round her destructive mother - and a portrait of an illness misunderstood.
From one of today’s most iconic writers, My Brother is a remarkable record of a life that ended too early. It speaks to the difficult truths at the heart of all families.
Now in the Picador Collection.
Controlled and fearless perfection -- Carolyn See * Washington Post *
A sustained meditation on the grinding wheel of family, with mother always at the hub . . . a memoir about death that portrays it as it is, not as we would have it be, as we so often tailor it both in memoir and fiction -- Anna Quindlen * New York Times Book Review *
Visceral and wrenching, this is a memoir of mourning . . . Kincaid's revelations are both intoxicating and redeeming -- René Graham * Boston Sunday Globe *
What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex. * Ali Smith *
ISBN: 9781529077087
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 10mm
Weight: 118g
160 pages