Brothers
A Memoir of Loving and Giving

I really enjoyed this book! Donna is a woman who loves giving – but then gets angry sometimes when she believes she is being taken for granted. She blames EVERYTHING that happens in her life on her brother Darrell's death when she was in college. This reminds me of Twin: A Memoir, in which the autho......more

I like the way she tells her story and the lessons and insights she weaves into it. Or maybe it’s more a treatise on what she has learned and discovered about life, others and herself, liberally illustrated with the stories of her experiences. In my hopes to one day write my own story, hers is a pos......more

3.5 stars — I found a lot of Britt’s musings about womanhood resonant, but I wanted more narrative. I know she’s a journalist, and it felt like some of these sections were columns that were collected into a book. There’s nothing wrong with that; I just wanted to slow down and be more absorbed in the......more

Now in her fifties, Donna Britt, an award-winning and ground-breaking black, female journalist, takes a look back at her life to see what has influenced her the most. She is unsurprised to find that her life has largely been affected by loving and giving to brothers--black men she's both related to......more

DISCLOSURE: I WON THIS BOOK IN A GOODREADS GIVEAWAY. When the author said she was a reporter and then a slice of life opinion columnist, the book's style made more sense. It starts like a memoir of her life with a focus on love and giving and how they are intertwined in her mind. I liked the beginning......more