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A review by audaciaray
Drown by Junot Díaz
3.0
Beautiful, fast and loose writing.
For me, Drown was most fascinating as a meditation on masculinity (with heady doses of class, race, and immigration too). The men in the stories are pretty much all unsympathetic characters, except sometimes the boys. But only sometimes. But Diaz does this complicated thing, in which he lured me into disliking the characters, but also feeling sad on their behalf without exactly pitying them.
For me, Drown was most fascinating as a meditation on masculinity (with heady doses of class, race, and immigration too). The men in the stories are pretty much all unsympathetic characters, except sometimes the boys. But only sometimes. But Diaz does this complicated thing, in which he lured me into disliking the characters, but also feeling sad on their behalf without exactly pitying them.