In her heart-wrenching memoir, award-winning Haitian-American author Danticat details her family's history. The story mainly focuses on the lives of her two father-figures: her biological father, Mira, and her uncle, Joseph, who took care of her and her brother for eight years while her parents lived in the US and the kids weren't able to join them.

My heart broke into a million pieces, and I could barely keep reading through the tears in the last 100 pages of the book. What I'm left with after finishing, though, is gratitude for family, love, and life. 'Brother, I'm Dying' is a profession of love and a recollection of the lives of people at the sidelines of history.

I highly recommend it!