Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz focuses on the haunting, impossible power of love -
obsessive, illicit, fading, and maternal. On a beach in the Dominican Republic,
a doomed relationship flounders. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only
son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is Yunior, a
young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness--and
by the extraordinary women he loves and loses. The stories lay bare the
infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us
that passion always triumphs over experience, and that "the half-life of love
is forever."
Bio
Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to New Jersey when he was six. He is the author of a story collection, "Drown," and a novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2008. Parts of both books first appeared in The New Yorker. He has contributed stories to the magazine since 1995; his most recent, "The Pura Principle," ran in the March 22nd issue.