General Information on Three Weeeks With My Brother

WHO

Three Weeks with my Brother is not only the story of Nicholas and Micah Sparks, but a family memoir and travelogue as well. The main characters are Nicholas and Micah, their parents Jill and Mike and their sister Dana, as well as Cathy (Nicholas’s wife), Christine (Micah’s wife), and their children.

The main characters during the brothers’ trip around the world are Bob and Kate Devlin.

WHAT

Three Weeks with my Brother is a family memoir, as related by the brothers on a trip around the world.

Three Weeks with my Brother, Nicholas’s ninth book and Micah’s first, is non-fiction, and approximately 97,000 words.

WHERE

Three Weeks with my Brother was written in North Carolina (Nicholas) and California (Micah). Correspondence was primarily faxed, discussions were phone-based.

The back story in Three Weeks with my Brother takes place in Nebraska, Minnesota, Los Angeles, Sacramento, South Bend and North Carolina; the journey around the world took the brothers to Guatemala, Peru, Easter Island, The Cook Islands, Australia, Cambodia, India, Ethiopia, Malta and Norway.

WHEN

Three Weeks with my Brother was begun, with note-taking, in January and February, 2003. The book was begun in June, 2003 and completed in October, 2003.

The trip around the world began in Fort Lauderdale on January 22, 2003; the trip ended in Washington D.C, on February 15, 2003

THEME

Brotherhood and Family

GENRE

Memoir