Brother, I'm Dying

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"Brother, I'm Dying" is a memoir by Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat that recounts her family's history, political turmoil in Haiti, and the tragic fate of her uncle in U.S. immigration custody.

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instanceOf memoir
author Edwidge Danticat
awarded National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
countryOfOrigin United States
depicts Haitian political violence
detention in U.S. immigration custody
refugee experience
exploresTheme bureaucratic injustice
exile
family loyalty
home and belonging
mortality
focusesOn relationship between Edwidge Danticat and her father
relationship between Edwidge Danticat and her uncle Joseph
genre autobiographical literature
memoir
hasAuthorNationality Haitian-American
hasForm prose
hasISBN 9781400041152
hasNarrativeForm first-person narrative
hasNotableCharacter Edwidge Danticat's father
Joseph Dantica
Mira Danticat
intendedAudience adult readers
literaryPeriod 21st-century literature
mainSubject Danticat family
Edwidge Danticat
Haitian diaspora
linked to: Haitians

U.S. immigration system
death of Danticat's uncle
family separation
immigration
political turmoil in Haiti
nominatedFor National Book Award for Nonfiction
originalLanguage English
publicationDate 2007
publisher Alfred A. Knopf
setting Haiti
United States

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Edwidge Danticat notableWork Brother, I'm Dying