My Brother
Memoir
By: Jamaica Kincaid
Date: 1997
Source: Kincaid, Jamaica. My Brother. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997, 3–7.
About the Author: Jamaica Kincaid (1949–) was born in St. John's, Antigua, in the West Indies. She immigrated to the United States in 1966, and attended a community college in New York City and Franconia College in New Hampshire. She has written for The New Yorker and published several fiction and non-fiction books. In 2003 she was the gardening editor for Architectural Digest.
Introduction
After twenty years in the United States, Jamaica Kincaid returned to Antigua in the mid-1990s to care for her youngest brother, who was dying from AIDS. Kincaid hardly knew her brothers, whom she regards as her "mother's children." In reencountering them, Kincaid challenged her ideas of kinship and love. "I felt myself being...
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