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MY BROTHER

By Jamaica Kincaid, Penguin Audiobooks, 6 hours, $24.95. Read by the author.

Novelist Jamaica Kincaid blends the medical with the magical in this riveting memoir of her younger brother Devon, who died last year of AIDS at age 33. Kincaid’s own, accented narration palpably evokes the atmosphere of the island of Antigua, which was her birthplace and the scene of her brother’s grueling and strangely instructive death.