Preview
  • Thalia Book Club: Edwidge Danticat's 'Brother, I'm Dying'

  • By: Edwidge Danticat
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Demme
  • Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Thalia Book Club: Edwidge Danticat's 'Brother, I'm Dying'

By: Edwidge Danticat
Narrated by: Jonathan Demme
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $6.94

Buy for $6.94

Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.

Publisher's summary

Edwidge Danticat discusses her deeply personal new memoir, a National Book Award finalist for 2007, with her friend, director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs).

Danticat, the acclaimed author of fiction, including Krik? Krak! and The Dew Breaker, wrote Brother, I'm Dying after a period of upheaval in her life, having lost her father and her uncle and given birth to her first child. She focuses her family story around her father and his brother Joseph, who took care of her in Haiti until she joined her parents in Brooklyn at age 12. It concludes with a well-researched account of Joseph Danticat's tragic death in the custody of U.S. immigration officials in 2004. The New York Times called Brother, I'm Dying "a memoir whose clear-eyed prose and unflinching adherence to the facts conceal an astringent undercurrent of melancholy, a mixture of homesickness and homelessness".

This special event was recorded live as part of the Thalia Book Club series at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City.

If you haven't heard it already, download Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying (Unabridged).

And don't miss any of the Thalia Book Club author events.

©2008 The Symphony Space, Inc. (P)2008 The Symphony Space, Inc.
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Editorial reviews

In this funny and moving evening recorded live at Symphony Space in New York City, Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat discusses her memoir Brother, I'm Dying with her friend the director Jonathan Demme. Danticat reads from what she calls her "memoir-with-folktales," and then she and Demme share an engaging discussion about the book's subject matter, including Danticat's uncle's death in U.S. immigration detention. Along the way the pair discuss politics, the Haitian-American experience, the spare style of the book, and the idea of empathy as the basis for action.

What listeners say about Thalia Book Club: Edwidge Danticat's 'Brother, I'm Dying'

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    5
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    2
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    5
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    2
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    6
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Wonderful but recording feedback first half is bothersome. The book and conversation are great.

Wonderful but recording feedback first half is bothersome. The book and conversation are great. Worthwhile

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!