Junot Diaz at Hartford Public Library

Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, is speaking in Hartford this weekend

DATE Friday, October 23

TIME - 6 PM

PLACE - Hartford Public Library (500 Main St)

The Brief Wondrous Life won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has received enormous amounts of critical acclaim. The book is an insightful look at masculinity, Dominican culture and history, the struggles of immigrant families, and the fundamental search for identity and place. Using a creative of mix of Spanish, “nerdish”, and magical realism, Diaz creates something that is totally unprecedented but oddly familiar in our increasingly diverse surroundings.

Let me know if you’re interested, I’ll be heading down around 5:45. Or if you want to read more Diaz, I can lend you a copy of Drown, his first published collection of short stories.

If you have never read Diaz, check out this New Yorker podcast reading of his story “How to Date a Brown Girl, Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie” from Drown.