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    A Study Guide for Danticat's "Brother, I'm Dying"
    A Study Guide for Danticat's "Brother, I'm Dying"
    A Study Guide for Danticat's "Brother, I'm Dying"
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    A Study Guide for Danticat's "Brother, I'm Dying"

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    A Study Guide for Danticat's "Brother, I'm Dying" excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary News For Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary News For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 21, 2015
    ISBN9781535820011
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      Brother, I'm Dying

      Edwidge Danticat

      2007

      Introduction

      Brother, I'm Dying, published in 2007, is Edwidge Danticat's nonfiction family story that centers around her father, her uncle, and the events that linked them in the last months of their lives. On a single day in 2004, the author discovers she is pregnant with her first child and that her father has end-stage pulmonary fibrosis. Using these events to frame her memoir, Danticat explores her family's troubled history in Haiti and the United States and her experience of having to leave the only home she had ever known. Using information taken from official documents, as well as borrowed recollections of family members the author tells the story of the men closest to her heart only because they can't.

      A best-selling novelist, short story writer, and editor, Edwidge Danticat has received numerous literary awards and has been heralded as the voice of Haitian Americans. Brother, I'm Dying, a National Book Award Finalist, is Danticat's second work of nonfiction. Like her earlier works, it focuses on the Haitian diaspora, Haitian history, and the Haitian American experience. In this book, Danticat employs a combination of emotion and restraint to weave the political and the personal into a well-crafted memoir.

      Author Biography

      Edwidge Danticat was born on January 19, 1969, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to Andre Miracin Danticat and Rose Souvenance Danticat. When she was two years old, her father moved to New York, leaving his wife and two children behind. Two years later, Danticat's mother left Haiti to join him. Danticat and her two-year-old brother, Bob, were placed in the care of their Uncle Joseph—her father's older brother—and his wife, Denise. In 1981, Danticat and her brother were allowed to join their parents and immigrated to Brooklyn, New York. The author initially had difficulty assimilating to her new culture due to her style of dress, her accent, and her hairstyle. She found solace from the isolation she felt by writing about her native country. Her parents wanted her to pursue a career in medicine, but Danticat, from an early age, maintained a devotion to writing. She graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from Barnard College in 1990 and went on to earn a master of fine arts degree from Brown University in 1993.

      Danticat began work on what would eventually become her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, when she was still an adolescent. Published in 1994, the novel received both critical and popular praise and was assured best-seller status when it became a 1998 Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection. Her next book, Krik? Krak!, a collection of short stories published in

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