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~3h 44min
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English
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3
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Categories
Social Life And Customs
Vida Social Y Costumbres
Dominican Americans
Fiction
Published 1996 Faber and Faber 6 views
ISBN
1573226181, 9781573226189
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Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and received a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012.

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We were on our way to the colmado for an errand...

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Originally published in 1997, Drown instantly garnered terrific acclaim. Moving from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, these heartbreaking, completely original stories established Diaz as one of contemporary fictions most exhilarating new voices.

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