"a fiction writer using vernacular dialogue and spare, unsentimental prose to draw readers into the various and distinct worlds that immigrants must straddle (Junot Diaz); "
Read more here:
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/01/487...#storylink=cpy
Just heard an interview with him on NPR this week.
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/13/160762...esonant-voices
amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...rds=Junot+Diaz
also Dinaw Mengestu -
http://www.macfound.org/fellows/870/