Monday, May 13, 2024

First Lines: Junot Diaz


They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz

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