Junot Díaz writes fiction about Dominican and Dominican American life, migration, masculinity and family history. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao follows Oscar de León, a science-fiction-obsessed Dominican American boy, while also tracing his family's history under the Trujillo dictatorship and the narrator Yunior's complicated relationship with the people around him. Drown collects stories about boys and young men moving between the Dominican Republic and the United States, and This Is How You Lose Her returns to Yunior through stories about infidelity, relationships and self-deception. Díaz's prose mixes English, Spanish, slang and genre references without pausing to translate everything for the reader. His work fits immigrant fiction, Dominican American literature and contemporary short stories. Read more Less
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