false <![CDATA[Drown]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255760479m/531989.jpg 531989 18 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. Diaz's work is unflinching and strong, and these stories crackle with an electric sense of discovery. Diaz evokes a world in which fathers are gone, mothers fight with grim determination for their families and themselves, and the next generation inherits the casual cruelty, devastating ambivalence, and knowing humor of lives circumscribed by poverty and uncertainty. In <B>Drown</B>, Diaz has harnessed the rhythms of anger and release, frustration and joy, to indelible effect. 3230496 book 1996 Drown total:3758|5:1223|4:1634|3:745|2:136|1:20| 3758 15178 5396 601 4 14 false false Sat Feb 02 13:06:12 -0800 2008 Tue Jul 08 16:16:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 6 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 16:51:19 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 07:18:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 6 false false Tue Jun 19 15:30:55 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 23 09:24:21 -0700 2007
You would think that facelessness is synonymous with invisibility, but...more...]]> 5 4 false false Fri Dec 12 10:29:10 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 10:38:24 -0800 2008
Every story needs is filled with sentences/dialogue that are gaspably good. My fovorite sentence in the collection is from the story, How To Date a Br...more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 15:32:37 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 09:26:23 -0700 2008
I picked this book up because I enjoyed The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. When I started to read it, I thought that this felt like a handful of failed starts to similar novels. But the further that I read into it, the more I realized what it was that Junot Di...more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Wed Sep 19 14:45:51 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 14:45:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 3 false false Thu Apr 19 06:05:09 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 19 06:05:35 -0700 2007
The 10 tales in this intense debut collection plunge us into the emotional lives of people redefining their American identity. Narrated by adolescent Dominican males living in the struggling communities of the Dominican Republic, New York and New Jersey, these stori...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Oct 01 09:20:46 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 12 10:36:25 -0700 2007
BTW, Diaz has a novel out now, reviewed in this week's NY Times book review.

This was as great as everyone says. Reading it is like a vacation to a place where you meet a lot of local people who are interesting. The twist here i...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Apr 26 15:32:31 -0700 2009 Sun Jan 11 09:16:20 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 26 15:32:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Apr 14 08:09:48 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 08:19:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 23:59:23 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 00:04:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jul 16 09:40:20 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 09:41:21 -0700 2007 2 1 false false Tue Aug 05 08:13:23 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 09:08:47 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 08:13:23 -0700 2008 Oscar Wao. A man without a face, people shuffling between Santo Domingo and New Jersey, some early experimenting in Junot Diaz’s “original voice”.

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