Brother, I'm Dying

By: Edwidge Danticat

Narrated by: Robin Miles

National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography, 2008

Award-winning, best-selling author Edwidge Danticat taps her exceptional storytelling gifts for this memoir of the two men who raised her. When the author was only four years old, her parents emigrated from Haiti to New York in search of a better life, leaving their daughter in the care of her uncle Joseph. A peaceful pastor in Port-au-Prince, Joseph raised Edwidge with the love and devotion of a father, despite facing many hardships in politically turbulent Haiti.

©2007 Edwidge Danticat (P)2007 Recorded Books LLC

Critic reviews

"Poignant and never sentimental, this elegant memoir recalls how a family adapted and reorganized itself over and over, enduring and succeeding to remain kindred in spite of living apart." (Publishers Weekly)

Interesting

Not a great memoir, but a good one. Haiti has always had an air of mystery to it, and this story helped me understand it a bit. The narrator is one of the best I've heard.

Master Storyteller

A touching remembrance of the love of family over the arc of several generations, beautifully narrated. It lays bare the sacrifices made by immigrant families and the injustices of the American immigration system.

The story of brothers living separate but joint lives

The story is beautiful and somber. Such a great depiction of the pride of Haitians and the difficulty of navigating systems that perpetuate this he difficulty we have had since early on.

Beautiful heart-rending story

I have long meant to read Danticat’s book and was glad to find it an option on Audible. The performance was nuanced, the voices varied and easy to distinguish. I am grateful that it is the way of Danticat’s people to speak of their dead. She has woven an incredible tale of family and the bonds of love and also of the betrayal of Haitian independence and the Haitian people by colonial powers, France and the US.

connected so much with the story

A well-written story about family heritage and culture. I connected deeply with this. It felt like I was reading about my own family and my migration to the United States.