Finalist for the 1997 National Book Award for Nonfiction

Jamaica Kincaids brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaids incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brothers 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 writers mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families.