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Junot Díaz made his debut with Drown (https://goo.gl/3HXB4p), ten interconnected short stories in 1997, our book club pic for November 2016. These coming-of-age stories grant the reader a brief glimpse into the lives of immigrants, their lives in poverty in the Dominican Republic through migration to life on the edges in New Jersey. "Diaz evokes a world in which fathers are gone, mothers fight with grim determination for their families and themselves, and the next generation inherits the casual cruelty, devastating ambivalence, and knowing humor of lives circumscribed by poverty and uncertainty." (Goodreads - https://goo.gl/3HXB4p) Throughout the stories the resilience of the characters, the humanness in squalor points to universal truths, unique beauty, and casual violence in our own lives and the lives of those around us.

Featuring Caroline Bhalla, Raphael Bostic, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, and Richard Green