Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.
Junot DiazLiterature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.
Junot DiazWe know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard story anthology hews closer to what makes being human so hard: it reminds you with each story how quickly everything we are, everything we call our lives can change, can be upended, can disappear. Never to return.
Junot DiazSucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.
Junot Diaz