About Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican-American writer. He moved to the United States with his parents at age six, settling in New Jersey. Central to Díaz's work is the duality of the immigrant experience.
Junot Díaz recommends
 Passing Through (2004) Colin Channer "A splendid collection by one of the Caribbean Diaspora's finest writers." |  The Virgin of Flames (2007) Chris Abani "Chris Abani is a force of nature. In the world of letters he is a luminous shattering talent, and The Virgin of Flames is his strangest and wildest trip yet. I don't think there's ever been a protagonist quite like Black, or an LA quite like this one. " |  The Hakawati (2008) Rabih Alameddine "Here is absolute beauty. One of the finest novels I've read in years." |
 Fire (2009) (Seven Kingdoms Trilogy, book 2) Kristin Cashore "Cashore is wonderful, tough and nuanced - everything you could want from a writer." |  Love and Obstacles (2009) Aleksandar Hemon "Colossal talent." |  In the Valley of the Kings (2009) Terrence Holt "This is the secret book at the heart of American letters. Holt is one of the finest American writers alive." |
 Your Presence Is Requested At Suvanto (2010) Maile Chapman "Maile Chapman is one of my favorite writers and in Your Presence Is Requested At Suvanto has given us an errie gift of a novel. It is a superb hallucinatory piercing, an ominous dispatch from that Gothic frontier of the Female Body." |  One Amazing Thing (2010) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni "Divakaruni is a brilliant storyteller; she illuminates the world with her artistry; and shakes the reader with her love." |  The Black Minutes (2010) Martin Solares "A breathless, marvelous first novel... This is Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest... a literary masterpiece masquerading as a police procedural and nothing else I've read this year comes close." |
 In the Company of Angels (2010) (Copenhagen) Thomas E Kennedy "As elegant as it is beautiful, as important as it is profound. A marvel of a read." |  Vida (2010) Patricia Engel "Here, friends, is the debut I have been waiting for." |  The Third Bear (2010) Jeff VanderMeer "Cunningly crafted stories full of wonder and intelligence... VanderMeer proves again why he is so essential and why everybody should be reading him." |
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