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Dominican Americans, Fiction, New York Times bestseller, New jersey, fiction
This is a collection of stories that explores the power of love in all its forms, obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love, as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
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Character-led, spare, open-ended and overwhelming.
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Fans of Junot Díaz's previous adventures of a Latino love rat in New Jersey are in for a treat
Junot Díaz’s new collection of stories features a familiar character, Yunior, and themes of family history, cultural mores and romantic infidelity.
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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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