Brother, I'm Dying

  PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

  Copyright © 2007 by Edwidge Danticat

  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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  Portions of this book have appeared in slightly different form in

  Boston Haitian Reporter,

  The Nation and O, The Oprah Magazine.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Danticat, Edwidge, [date]

  Brother I’m dying / by Edwidge Danticat. —1st ed.

  p. cm.

  1. Danticat, Edwidge, [date]—Family. 2. Authors, American—20th century—Biography. 3. Uncles—Haiti. 4. Emigration and immigration. 5. Haiti—Social conditions—20th century. I. Title.

  PS3554.A5815Z46 2007

  813'.54—dc22

  [B] 2007006887

  Brother, I’m Dying is a work of nonfiction, but the names of certain individuals, as well as potentially identifying descriptive details concerning them, have been changed.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-26773-3

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