As part of our Fall 2013 immigration series, Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author, explored the youth immigrant experience through short fiction from his book, Drown.
Praise for Drown:
“This stunning collection of stories offers an unsentimental glimpse of life among the immigrants from the Dominican Republic–and other front-line reports on the ambivalent promise of the American dream–by an eloquent and original writer who describes more than physical dislocation in conveying the price that is paid for leaving culture and homeland behind.” —San Francisco Chronicle.
Junot Diaz’s stories are as vibrant, tough, unexotic, and beautiful as their settings – Santa Domingo, Dominican Neuva York, the immigrant neighborhoods of industrial New Jersey with their gorgeously polluted skyscapes. Places and voices new to our literature yet classically American: coming-of-age stories full of wild humor, intelligence, rage, and piercing tenderness. And this is just the beginning. Diaz is going to be a giant of American prose. —Francisco Goldman