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Junot Díaz is the author of Drown (1996), a collection of short stories, and the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007). Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on December 31, 1968. He has two brothers and two sisters. Growing up, Díaz and his siblings lived in Santo Domingo with their mother while Díaz’s father went to the United States to work. His father sent for his family when Díaz was seven and they moved to New Jersey.

Díaz reports that his grades in high school were awful. He did however spend a lot of time reading everything he could find in the library. He also wrote a Stephen King-esque novel that he says was “garbage.” Díaz worked various jobs before becoming a writer, including working at a steel mill and delivering pool tables.

Díaz attended Rutgers University and received his bachelor's degree in History and Literature. While at Rutgers, Díaz lived in Demarest, the dorm where Oscar and Yunior live in the novel. After going to Rutgers, Díaz pursued a Master of Fine Art

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Junot Díaz is a writer born in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic and living in the US, New Jersey, from the age of 6. This is his second collection of short stories. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed novel ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’.

This collection of short stories is mostly from the point of view of a young man of Dominican origin, Yunior, now living in the States. He and his family appear in most of the stories, spilling over from one to the other. This means that we catch glimpses of Yunior and family at different points in time, in different situations, giving depth to the character and filling out aspects of their lives, mostly connected to their experiences as part of the Dominican diaspora, and producing something of the effect that the whole is more than the sum of the parts.

With Yunior as first person narrator, there is a lot of sex in the stories, from the very sexualised gaze of the narrator just describing women who come into his life as well as sex in the context of a relationship. At times I enjoyed the occasional

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Junot Díaz on the Monster of 'Islandborn'

Junot Díaz wants you to know what children’s books can do. His first venture into the genre, “Islandborn,” follows a young girl named Lola as she tries to remember the Island, the country she left as a baby. She tracks details through memories from family and friends, all of which are vividly illustrated by Leo Espinosa in brightly colored pages—that is, until a dark, shadowy “Monster” interrupts Lola’s cheerful narrative.

“I was hoping this book wouldn’t just be a comment on little Lola and her lovely family and this larger island community from which she comes,” Díaz says. “I was hoping it would also be something of a dialogue about what children’s literature is capable of.” Children’s books are no strangers to monsters or antagonists, the building blocks to many self-sustaining plots. Under Díaz’s pen, the Monster of “Islandborn” comes to represent larger political implications.

“For me, the Monster represents the savage, traumatic histories from which many of us immigrants emerge—a history that is often erased or silenced