Drown -- Junot Díaz, Paperback

From the beloved and award-winning author Junot D az, a spellbinding saga of a family's journey through the New World.

A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power, Drown introduced the world to Junot D az's exhilarating talents. It also introduced an unforgettable narrator-- Yunior, the haunted, brilliant young man who tracks his family's precarious journey from the barrios of Santo Domingo to the tenements of industrial New Jersey, and their epic passage from hope to loss to something like love. Here is the soulful, unsparing book that made D az a literary sensation.


Author: Junot Díaz
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 07/01/1997
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.18w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9781573226066
Age Range: 18-UP

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 88921 / Drown


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 08/31/1997 pg. 20
Time 09/03/2007 pg. 62
Entertainment Weekly 09/04/2015 pg. 45
School Library Journal 02/01/2017 pg. 50

About the Author
Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist; and a debut picture book, Islandborn. He is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.