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Ep. 444 Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat — The Stacks Book Club (Natalie Green)
It’s The Stacks Book Club day, and Natalie Green, Director of Programs and Partnerships at The National Book Foundation, is back to discuss Edwidge Danticat’s critically acclaimed memoir, Brother, I’m Dying. This National Book Award finalist explores Danticat’s relationship with her two father figures—her uncle Joseph, who raised her as a child in Haiti, and her father, Mira, whom she reunited with in the U.S. when she was 12—and the impact of their deaths. Natalie and I discuss why we think this is a successful memoir, the moments that stuck with us most, and the many...
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She so beautifully captured this ideal of like the lived experience of exile for these two men is all of the lost opportunity of time that they could have been together. And I feel like especially towards the end of the book, she keeps kind of reminding us that they actually didn't get that much time together, but there's still this like
unfathomable amount of love and knowing between them. Like despite the exile, despite living in different countries, like how she captured that I was just, I was so moved by that. Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them.
I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and it is the Stacks Book Club Day. Natalie Green, the director of programs and partnerships at the National Book Foundation is back with us to discuss our September book club pick, Brother I'm Dying by Edweej Dantika.
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