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Liked It “I felt this book was the most heart moving book because as it describe a life-style of an African American in Africa. One of the sibling decide she didn't like her life, so she move to America. However, she left behind her brother and mother and in the end her brother had HIV because he was...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“I really enjoyed this book for two main reasons, I was able to easily connect to it and therefore understand what she was saying, and two it was an emotional read that touched me. The title of the book is very relevant to the book but also very general. It is a memoir about her brother but it also is very much about Jamaica herself and her issues with her mother and her childhood. All the relationships in the book help to understand I guess her overall relationship with her brother. It's interesting how she runs away from her mother and her childhood, but yet it haunts her, and she is able to confront her family problems and her mother throughout the book, and sort of lets go of all her anger. She learns to love her family in ways she never recognized and never wanted to. It's sort of her heroic journey to confront her childhood, and it's because of the situation her brother was in that made it possible. What I didn't particularly like about her writing style was her repetition of certain words and things within sentences, paragraphs, and the whole book. It became annoying and rude, and took away from the emphasis she wanted.”
LAURA H wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I felt this book was the most heart moving book because as it describe a life-style of an African American in Africa. One of the sibling decide she didn't like her life, so she move to America. However, she left behind her brother and mother and in the end her brother had HIV because he was having sexual intercourse with everyone. Therefore, she come back to visit her mother and brother knowing that he won't live very long with no medicine at all in Africa that can slow down HIV. She realize that she can't escape from her past and must acknowledge it as she told her kids to remember their uncle. ”
JEFFREY CHENG wrote this review Friday, November 7 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Jamaica always wanted to suppress her childhood in Antigua and she wanted to just concentrate on her life in America. She was a respected author and she had a family that she cared about. She created a balance in her life, that she has strive to acquire, but was later shattered by her brother disease.
LYDIA H wrote this review Wednesday, November 5 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Her brother had HIV, and even though she didn't have any emotional connection to him, she drew herself closer to Antigua. She hated her mother for doing all these bad things to her, but she had to confront her when she went to Antigua.
By traveling to Antigua, Jamaica comes through a self realization and comes to a better understanding about her life. The more she disclosed things about her life, the more it became an issue to her. I had the same issue with family because I didn't really understand the Indonesian culture till I visited. I became attached to my Indonesian family because I realized their importance to me.”“My Brother is a complex and repetitive book that can be really boring at times because the narrator would go through so much events about her past, just to state the same thing she always been stating that she hate her mother and brother. All the memories and her constant remarks though about her mother and brother is actually part of her transformation of consciousness. The battle to understand her true feelings for them two begins when she arrive back in her home land to visit her dying brother who discovered that he got aids. Everywhere she go as she walked around her home land where she was born, memories would come up, either having a positive effect on her opinion of her mother and brother or a negative effect on her opinion. It was this constant battle in her head that have her confused about her true feelings which lead to her having random feelings for her mother and brother throughout the time, she spent with her dying brother. I found this book interesting in some parts but most parts can be really lame and boring. The narrator's brother's personality though does demonstrate how humanity mostly do not cherish anything such as their health until it's late but he's not the only one though because it still happen today.”
ROBERT C wrote this review Tuesday, September 23 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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