Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying

In weaving together a tale about her family's past, Danticat has fused elements of biography and autobiography to tell a story that seems to be simulaneously subjective and objective. Although this book has obvious personal implications for Danticat, she places herself as more of a "witness" to the events in the text, sworn to tell truth only to the best of her ability. Stating at the end of the book that "what [she] really wanted to say was that the dead and the new life were already linked, through [her] blood, through [her]", Danticat again places herself in the role of the seeker or the link that ties the narrative together; she's an object of the narrative, not the subject.
This seems to be indicative of the struggles contained in life writing as a genre which stretches notions of truth, authority, and accountability.