Brother I'm Dying
by Edwidge Danticat
What America does to people at its borders.
you want to understand US immigration detention through one family's impossible story
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Danticat's uncle — a pastor in Haiti — fled to the US after political violence in 2004 and died in immigration detention in Miami, aged 81, four days after arriving. Her father was dying of pulmonary fibrosis at the same time. She was pregnant. This memoir holds all of it simultaneously — the history of Haiti and the US, two brothers' lives, what it means to be Haitian in America, what America does at its borders to the people it claims to welcome. The most personal dispatch on this shelf and the most enraging.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Haiti • Caribbean
- Voice
- Written by a Haitian author
- Themes
- War & Displacement
