Title: Brother, I'm Dying
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Year: 2007/2008
Publisher: Vintage
Pages: 282
Danticat's recent family history personalizes the reader's understanding of tensions in Haiti (which proceed the 2010 earthquake). She draws a portrait of a vital family, sundered by economics, local violence, and hard decisions, culminating in a helplessness (sadly, much of it at the hands of the US) that prefigures on a family scale the larger narratives of Paul Farmer and others.
I read this to improve my understanding of west Dominican culture and history, since the two DR travel/culture books I read were both focused on the majority Hispanic-derived people.
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