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Part I (pages 1 - 57)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Danticat, Edwidge. Brother, I'm Dying. Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

• This book is written in the first-person, past tense with Edwidge Danticat as the narrator.

• The first section is titled "Have You Enjoyed Your Life?"

• Danticat found out she was pregnant the same day in early July 2004 that her father was diagnosed with end-stage pulmonary fibrosis.

• Danticat's father picked her up at the airport in New York City. A few years earlier she had moved from Brooklyn, where her parents and two brothers lived, to Miami.

• At the airport, her father was too weak to get out of the car and had lost a lot of weight since she had last seen him.

• It was very hot and the heat made it harder for Danticat's father, whose name was Mira, to breathe.

• Danticat...

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