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3.4: Junot Diaz's "Wildwood" (2007)

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    Junot Diaz was born in the Dominican Republic in 1968. He then immigrated with his family to New Jersey at the age of 6 in order to join his father, who had already been working in the United States. After struggling with the English language growing up, Diaz eventually majored in English at Rutgers University, receiving his BA in 1992. Three years later, he went on to receive his MFA from Cornell University, where he wrote many short stories that would later appear in his first collection Drown (1996). His critically acclaimed novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) won a Pulitzer Prize and was followed up by another collection of short stories This Is How You Lose Her (2012). Diaz currently teaches at MIT and is the fiction editor for the Boston Review magazine. "Wildwood" was originally published in the New Yorker magazine in 2007 before being included as a chapter in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. This coming-of-age story focuses on a Dominican-American teenager named Lola as she grapples with puberty, first love, family struggles, and her heritage.

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