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Junot Díaz Reads How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Pressure to Represent His Community and Fiction

There are obviously some autobiographical elements to this story. Juneau has often said that he feels like a native informant and I totally can identify with this. He's handled it very well in the work that he has done by allowing himself this kind of liberty first to be an artist, she says.

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