Junot Diaz will read from his pulitzer-prize winning book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, at 8pm on Monday, September 8th, in the Multipurpose Room of the College Avenue Student Center.
I haven't read the book, myself. It won the Pulitzer, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Novel of 2007. A good deal, apparently, is set at Rutgers University, where Diaz graduated in 1992. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times remarks of the book:
"a sort of streetwise brand of Spanglish that even the most monolingual reader can easily inhale: lots of flash words and razzle-dazzle talk, lots of body language on the sentences, lots of David Foster Wallace-esque footnotes and asides. And he conjures with seemingly effortless aplomb the two worlds his characters inhabit: the Dominican Republic, the ghost-haunted motherland that shapes their nightmares and their dreams; and America (a.k.a. New Jersey), the land of freedom and hope and not-so-shiny possibilities that they’ve fled to as part of the great Dominican diaspora."
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