“From the moment I could remember, it was made very clear to me that I was going to the United States,” he says. Díaz nods in agreement, settling into the chair across from where I am seated. As immigrant children, I begin, we learn at a very young age to view America as a kind of utopia, a place to be lauded. It is a cold Monday afternoon in early January, and I am in Cambridge, Mass., to discuss the novel, which turns 10 this September, with its author, Junot Díaz. It is this dream that is at the center of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. In America, the land of opportunity and democracy, anything is possible. This dream tells us that no matter our circumstances elsewhere, in America we can make it. We leave behind families and careers many of us leave to survive, escaping countries shrouded in violence and death. Terrifying, promising and elusive, it pulls us from our native lands.
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