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Article: Writing = life. (interview with writer Jamaica Kincaid)(Interview)
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- Interview
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- October 1, 1997
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Jamaica Kincaid's extraordinary new book is called My Brother. It is about all of us
Were one to do an analysis of every review, feature story, commentary, and press release written about Jamaica Kincaid over the years, chances are one would find that the single word most frequently used to describe her work is honesty. Certainly this word, this characteristic, is what comes to mind when thinking about My Brother (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), Kincaid's first memoir. It is a breathtakingly deep account of the story of her family in Antigua, written after the AIDS-related death of her youngest brother, Devon. Devon, we learn through the words of his sister, was ...