It’s not a 'me' moir. It’s like a 'nous' moir; it’s an 'us' moir.
Journalist Victoria Lautman interviews Edwidge Danticat on her searing family memoir, Brother, I’m Dying (2007). This is a book that ricochets from Port-au-Prince, Haiti to Brooklyn and bounces between the two most important men in the writers’ life: her father and his brother. When Danticat’s mother and father moved to the United States to pursue a better life for their children, Uncle Joseph devoted eight years to raising Danticat and her younger brother Bob before they could be reunited with their parents in New York. Joseph’s death in the custody of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security set this book in motion, but Danticat’s stories of her turbulent and evocative homeland are at the core of this narrative as in all her beloved bestsellers: Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994). Krik? Krak! (1995), The Farming of Bones, (1998), and The Dew Breaker (2004).