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A (Brief Wondrous) Interview with Junot Diaz
It would almost be redundant – and probably pitiful, too – to try and summarize The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in a single, obligatory paragraph that precedes an interview with its author, Junot Diaz. The book, which won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is deserving of long, in-depth coverage.
No Way Home
The dorm house where Khan Moek works is on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. It is run by the Returnee Integration Support Program (RISP), a venture supported by the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. The program offers a number of support services to help Cambodian felons who are deported from the U.S. learn to live in a country where they are nominal citizens, but utter foreigners in every other way.
