"I read Brother I'm Dying because it was a part of a book club that I was a part of, and that was actually our February book, Brother I'm Dying. I would have picked it anyway, even if we hadn't selected it, because the author, Edwidge Danticat, I absolutely love.

Brother I'm Dying is the story of, actually, two brothers, and as the title might give away, they're dying. But the way in which they die is incredible, and it takes you on a journey, basically, through life. It's nonfiction, really reads like a novel. So it's actually the story of her father and the story of her uncle who actually raised her after her family came to the United States. She and her brother were left in Haiti while they sort of got situated. And it centers around her finding out that her father is dying, and on the same day, she finds out she is pregnant. So she has to maneuver around these two opposites of this full sort of life circle.

What I liked best about the book, in addition to, as I mentioned before, her incredible writing skill, she really has a true understanding of writing as a craft and an art and puts it in the highest place of honor. Still, I'm trying to figure out how did she make this book so hopeful and so inspiring and so uplifting in the midst of all that could have been horrible. Jamaica Kincaid could be a comparable author to her.

I would recommend that anyone with an interest around politics, revolution, people just lacking some information about Haiti - I would also recommend this to anyone with a family, because the theme that rang true through the entire story was the importance of family on our everyday lives. I would give this book five stars out of five stars. I found no holes in it anywhere. I thought she was just authentic and clear and open to putting some things out about herself and her family that she could have kept to herself but just really approached with courage and did that. So it's certainly a five-star rating."

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