Drown

[Brianna]

Junot Diaz divulges short stories like secrets in this captivating collection of narratives. The characters he introduces are almost too real to read on a page. The slices of life the audience is privileged to encounter are rough, detailed accounts of lives most certainly lived outside of the pages of this novel. Diaz creates characters easily found on the streets of the world outside his fiction and this realism hits nearly too close to home for readers. He takes readers on a journey from the Dominican Republic to the streets of New Jersey and back in realistic accounts of life as a person in poverty and as an immigrant. The narratives span across several characters and spaces in time and give the audience a chance to peek into lives they may never have considered before. The stories are private windows that readers can spy through and see portrayals never before encountered; drug dealers, immigrants, children in the streets, and other people often ignored rather than observed. Diaz forces readers to confront their discomfort as they read through narratives of one night stands and children abused. He brings to light many issues that readers may not have considered before and plants seeds of curiosity at a life outside one's one.

[Monty J]

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