| Edition |
First Vintage Books edition. |
| Description |
x, 272 pages ; 21 cm |
| Awards |
National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, 2007 |
| Summary |
In a personal memoir, the author describes her relationships with the two men closest to her--her father and his brother, Joseph, a charismatic pastor with whom she lived after her parents emigrated from Haiti to the United States. |
| Contents |
Part 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 -- Part 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. |
| Subject |
Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- -- Family.
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Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- (OCoLC)fst00330110
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Uncles -- Haiti.
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Emigration and immigration.
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Haiti -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
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Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Uncles. (OCoLC)fst01160857
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Haiti. (OCoLC)fst01205135
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
World literature.
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781400034307 (paperback) |
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1400034302 (paperback) |
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