Drown - Junot Diaz
The epigram in Drown is a poem by Gustavo Pérez Firmat about linguistic exile:
The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject: how to explain to you that I
don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else
The last pages of the book include a glossary of the Spanish words with which these stories are liberally strewn. In between are ten stories that bridge the immigrant divide between the Dominican Republic and the United States. (For this reason it could be said to fit in to Spanishlitmonth. What do you think Richard?)
