So if you could just tell us a little bit about the people, the neighborhood, the communities you were writing about. "Drown" is also made up of coming-of-age stories but with a very different backdrop. MARTIN: Now, you know we interviewed Colson Whitehead about his novel "Sag Harbor" for our series, and we asked him to recommend the next book, and he recommended "Drown." And I don't know if you've had a chance to read his book, but it's a coming-of-age story set in this middle-class black enclave in the Hamptons. JUNOT DIAZ (Author, "Drown"): Michel, thanks for having me. "Drown" is our latest selection for TELL ME MORE's summer reading series. It's a collection of short stories set in a Dominican-American community in New Jersey, vivid stories of young men trying to forge an identity in the U.S., even as they grow up rooted in the culture of another home. When the novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2008, many readers hailed its author, Junot Diaz, as a bright new literary voice, but others say the prize as the fulfillment of the promise made a decade earlier.ĭiaz's breakthrough book was "Drown," published in 1996. I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News.
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