My Brother

"Controlled and fearless perfection," this National Book Award–nominated memoir is a moving meditation on family and grief (Carolyn See, The Washington Post).

Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the wri...