Jamaica Kincaid"s incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother Devon Drew"s life is also the story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer"s mother. Kincaid"s unblinking record of a life that ed too early speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families. My Brother is a 1997 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.