Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0679776575, Paperback)

"Desde que Díaz empezó a publicar historias cortas, en publicaciones tan prestigiosas como The New Yorker, ha sido señalado como un gran talento nuevo, y su debut con historias cortas, confirman ésta afirmación. Nació y creció en Santo Domingo, Díaz utiliza la comparación de su isla con la vida en Nueva York y Nueva Jersey, como el fulcro de sus mordaces historias." -Booklist.

Amazon.com (ISBN 1573220418, Hardcover)

With ten stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, Junot Diaz makes his remarkable debut. Diaz's work is unflinching and strong, and these stories crackle with an electric sense of discovery. Diaz evokes a world in which fathers are gone, mothers fight with grim determination for their families and themselves, and the next generation inherits the casual cruelty, devestating ambivalence, and knowing humor of lives circumscribed by poverty and uncertainty. In Drown, Diaz has harnessed the rhythms of anger and release, frustration and joy, to indelible effect.