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Author Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-

Title Brother, I'm dying / Edwidge Danticat.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 DANTICAT    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY DANTICAT    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. DANTICAT, E.    Storage
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B DANTICAT    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY DANTICAT    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B DANTICAT    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B DANTICAT    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B DANTICAT, EDWIDGE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO DANTICAT    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  B DANTICAT    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description x, 272 pages ; 22 cm
Contents pt. 1. He is my brother -- Have you enjoyed your life? -- Brother, I'm dying -- What did the white man say? -- Heartstrings, shoestrings -- We're all dying -- Good-bye -- Giving birth -- The return -- One papa happy, one papa sad -- Gypsy -- pt. 2. For adversity -- Brother, I can speak -- The angel of death and Father God -- You're not a policeman -- Brother, I leave you with a heavy heart -- Beating the darkness -- Hell -- Limbo -- No greater shame -- Alien 27041999 -- Tomorrow -- Afflictions -- Let the stars fall -- Brother, I'll see you soon -- Transition.
Summary Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, as her "second father" when she was placed in his care at age four when her parents left Haiti for America. So she experiences a jumble of emotions when, at twelve, she joins her parents in New York City, whom she struggles to remember--she has left behind Joseph and the only home she's ever known. The story of a new life in a new country while fearing for those still in Haiti soon becomes a terrifying tale of good people caught up in events beyond their control. In 2004, his life threatened by a gang, the frail, 81-year-old Joseph makes his way to Miami, where he thinks he will be safe. Instead, he is detained by the Department of Homeland Security, brutally imprisoned, and dead within days. It was a story that made headlines around the world.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.9 12.0 120109.
Subject Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- -- Family.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Uncles -- Haiti.
Emigration and immigration.
Haiti -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
ISBN 9781400041152
1400041155
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