Brother I'm Dying

Neustadt International · 2018 · WinnerDayton Literary · 2008 · Winner

KnopfSeptember 4, 2007Biography & Memoir

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Neustadt International Prize for Literature	2018	Winner
Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Nonfiction	2008	Winner

About This Book

A memoir about the deaths of the author's father and uncle in the same year — one from illness, one while in US immigration detention — a deeply personal account of Haitian family life, immigration, and the cost of exile.

About the Author

Edwidge DanticatHT

Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian-American novelist, short story writer, and memoirist born in 1969 in Port-au-Prince. She emigrated to the United States at age twelve to join her parents in Brooklyn, and her work is deeply shaped by the experience of Haitian diaspora, the history of Haiti, and the intersection of memory, loss, and longing. Danticat is the author of numerous celebrated works, including Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), Krik? Read more →