Junot Diaz, the renowned bestselling author of Drown, will read from and sign his highly anticipated new novel, The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao.  Moving from the inner-city neighborhoods of New Jersey to the barrios of Santo Domingo and from the fear-plagued Trujillo dictatorship to the multicultural campuses of the United States, Diaz both redefines the immigrant experience and transends it.

Recorded Monday, September 10, 2007 at Chicago Public Library.