Synopsis
‘Controlled and fearless perfection’ - The Washington Post
Jamaica Kincaid’s brother Devon died of Aids on 19 January 1996 at the age of 33. This poetic and shockingly candid recounting of her brother’s life and death is also the story of her family in Antigua - centred round her destructive mother - and a portrait of an illness misunderstood.
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Details
08 August 2024160 pages
9781529077087Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Controlled and fearless perfectionCarolyn See, Washington Post
A sustained meditation on the grinding wheel of family, with mother always at the hub . . . a memoir about death that portrays it as it is, not as we would have it be, as we so often tailor it both in memoir and fictionAnna Quindlen, New York Times Book Review
Visceral and wrenching, this is a memoir of mourning . . . Kincaid's revelations are both intoxicating and redeemingRené Graham, Boston Sunday Globe
What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex.Ali Smith
