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008			070925s2007 nyu 000 0 eng
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020			_a9781400041152
082	0	0	_a92 DAN
100	1		_aDanticat, Edwidge, 1969-
245	1	0	_aBrother, I'm dying _c/ by Edwidge Danticat
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2007.
300			_a272 p.
520			_a"From the age of four, Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, as her "second father," when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for a better life in America. Listening to his sermons, sharing coconut-flavored ices on their walks through town, roaming through the house that held together many members of a colorful extended family, Edwidge grew profoundly attached to Joseph. He was the man who "knew all the verses for love."" "And so she experiences a jumble of emotions when, at twelve, she joins her parents in New York City. She is at last reunited with her two youngest brothers, and with her mother and father, whom she has struggled to remember. But she must also leave behind Joseph and the only home she's ever known." "Edwidge tells of making a new life in a new country while fearing for the safety of those still in Haiti as the political situation deteriorates. But Brother I'm Dying soon becomes a terrifying tale of good people caught up in events beyond their control. Late in 2004, his life threatened by a violent gang, forced to flee his church, the frail, eighty-one-year-old Joseph makes his way to Miami, where he thinks he will be safe. Instead, he is detained by U.S. Customs, held by the Department of Homeland Security, brutally imprisoned and dead within days. It was a story that made headlines around the world. His brother, Mira, will soon join him in death, but not before he holds hope in his arms: Edwidge's firstborn, who will bear his name - and the family's stories, both joyous and tragic - into the next generation."--BOOK JACKET.
600	1	0	_aDanticat, Edwidge, 1969 _x-Family
650		4	_aAuthors, American _y-20th century _v--Biography
650		0	_aUncles _x-Haiti
650		0	_aEmigration and immigration
651		0	_aHaiti _x-Social conditions _z-20th century
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