Drown

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 208, [2]. Burgundy cloth over brown paper boards, silver lettering to spine, black endpapers. Book design by Junie Lee. Jacket design by Lisa Amoroso. Blurbs by Walter Mosley & Hanif Kureishi. With erratum slip laid in.

Highly acclaimed debut collection of stories that move from the barrios of the author's native Dominican Republic to the streets of New Jersey. Of the ten, "Ysrael" and "Fiesta, 1980" first appeared in Story magazine, "Drown" and "How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie" first appeared in The New Yorker, "Boyfriend" first appeared in Time Out New York, and "Edison, New Jersey" first appeared in The Paris Review. By the author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Selected by The New Yorker as one of "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century".

Recently cleared of sexual harassment allegations made by a string of women after a five-month review by an independent law firm, Díaz retains his posts as chair of the Pulitzer Prize board and creative writing professor at MIT. A sad coda to the accusations was the author's synchronous essay in The New Yorker (Apr. 16, 2018), recounting his childhood rape and its legacy of trauma. "Junot Diaz is a major new talent. His world explodes off the page into the canon of our literature and our hearts." –Walter Mosley