Controlled and fearless perfection - The Washington Post

Jamaica Kincaids brother Devon died of Aids on 19 January 1996 at the age of 33. This poetic and shockingly candid recounting of her brothers 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 todays 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.

My Brother Reviews

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 -- Rene Graham * Boston Sunday Globe *
What a writer elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex. * Ali Smith *

About Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. Johns, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont.

Additional information

Sku

NGR9781529077087

ISBN 13

9781529077087

ISBN 10

1529077087

Title

My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid

Author

Jamaica Kincaid

Series

Picador Collection

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Year published

2024-08-08

Number of pages

160

Prizes

N/A

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