Islandborn
Dominican AmericansPicture booksJuvenile fictionImmigrantsFiction
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Open LibraryAbout this book
"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland...and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
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Dominican AmericansPicture booksJuvenile fictionImmigrantsFictionSchools
Setting
Dominican RepublicAfricaÁfrica1930-1961
About the author
Junot Díaz
1968
Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel *The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,* and received a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012.
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