Drown
by Díaz, Junot
3.9
(11 ratings)208 pages16 editions1995National Geographic BooksISBN 9781573226066
About this book
With ten stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, Junot Diaz makes his remarkable debut.
In "Ysrael", two brothers hunt a disfigured boy who hides behind a mask; in "No Face", the mirror is flipped and perspective belongs to the tormented. In "Fiesta, 1980", a spirited family gathering plays against the noiseless hum of a father's infidelities. In "Boyfriend", a young man eavesdrops on the woman next door and colors in the life overheard with the drama born of intense longing.
And always, it seems there is the throb of waiting: in "Aguantando", for the fulfillment of a promise; in "Negocios", for rescue; in "Aurora", for respite; in "Drown", for resolution.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- National Geographic Books
- Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN
- 9781573226066
- Language
- en
- Editions
- 16
About Díaz, Junot
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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