![]() It could also be seen as belonging to the efflorescence of tough, post- "minimalist" American stories as produced by such figures as Thom Jones and Denis Johnson. Some reviewers saw it as being close to reportage, others as a fragmentary autobiographical novel. Although it was laid out as a story collection, Drown wasn't billed as such by its publishers. ![]() But there was less agreement about what kind of writer Díaz was. When first published, it was widely seen as marking the arrival of a young writer to be reckoned with. Junot Díaz's first book, Drown (1996), detailed the lives of children in the Dominican Republic and, later, of young men and their difficult parents in New Jersey's immigrant ghettoes. ![]()
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