Jamaica Kinkaid's My Brother , (1997)
Reviewed by Bronwen Low
"I became a writer out of desperation, so when I first heard my brother was dying I was familiar with the act of saving myself: I would write about him. I would write about his dying."
Despite...
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"Inna de heights a de mango crop/when de fruit jus' a ripe an' drop/ wash yu pot, tun dem down, mango time."
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