A review by labyrinth_witch
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat

5.0

Edwidge Danticat takes my breath away. Her writing is captivating. I feel completely invested in the people of her story, in her and her family. I feel as if I have lived through the horror and heartbreak of what the US has done to Haiti, of the horrible immigration system, and of the legacy of dehumanizations that we still enact today. I cried through most of this book, so deeply did it touch me. I particularly resonated with the maternal story threads, about mothers giving birth, children and the adult who love them. Family. It really shows how the "boundaries" between the US and Haiti disappear, how one's privilege maps onto another's suffering in the here and now.