Junot Diaz - A Great American Writer

One of my favorite writers is Junot Diaz. I just read a short story he wrote in the current issue of The New Yorker (March 22 issue). Junot was born in the Dominican Republic and emigrated to the US when he was 5 or 6. He is best known for the novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2008. His stories explore the tension between the old country and new; what it means to be an urban American in the modern day. His language is raw and peppered with Spanish. He perfectly captures the cadence and rhythm of the urban/Latino experience. The story appearing in The New Yorker is called "The Pura Principle." I highly recommend it as a starting point. If you like his storytelling, please read Oscar Wao.