One of her five favorite examples of autobiographical writing putatively devoted to other subjects, as told to The Daily Beast:My BrotherRead about another book on the list.
by Jamaica Kincaid
In examining the circumstances of her brother’s death of AIDS, Kincaid is forced also to reconsider her loathing for her mother, her avoidance of Antigua (her birthplace), and her various old guilts. No matter how early or how completely she believed she’d escaped the members of her birth family, they shape her fate—and she shapes theirs.
--Marshal Zeringue
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