My Brother (16 page)

—
BETSY WILLEFORD
,
The Kansas City Star

“Kincaid has pulled out all the stops … A book whose painful memories meander, then jar the senses like a rattlesnake's tail.”

—
PAULA L. WOODS
,
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“A study in detachment, in bitterness, in survival … The memoir criscrosses time and space from Kincaid's childhood on Antigua to her present-day life in Vermont—as mother, wife, writer—and back again to the hospital ward where her brother lies awaiting a lonely death.”

—
ELIZABETH MANUS
,
The Boston Phoenix Literary Supplement

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Copyright © 1997 by Jamaica Kincaid

All rights reserved

Published in 1997 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First paperback edition, 1998

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Kincaid, Jamaica.

   My brother / Jamaica Kincaid.

      p.  cm.

   ISBN-13: 978-0-374-21681-8

   ISBN-10: 0-374-21681-9 (cloth: alk. paper)

   1.  Kincaid, Jamaica—Family.   2.  Novelists, Antiguan—Family relationships.   3.  Women—Antigua—Family relationships.   4.  Brothers and sisters—Antigua.   5.  Rastafari movement—Antigua.   6.  Family—Antigua.   I.  Title.

PR9275.A583 K5639 1997

813—dc21

[B]

97-16190

Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52562-0

Paperback ISBN-10: 0-374-52562-5

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eISBN 9781466828865

First eBook edition: September 2012