Muse Media: Change and Junot Diaz
#Muse Media is a series of simple posts, looking for our muse by mixing prose with other media. If this was in the form of a Haiku with an image, it might be called a Haiga. For the moment, let's enjoy the prose of some wonderful authors.
“She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.” Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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I love this gutsy quote. The "in your face " style epitomizes Diaz work.
Change is often hard, and I wonder how the woman in the quote going to succeed?
In what ways do you manage change?
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Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and fiction editor at Boston Review. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, in 2008 followed by This Is How You Lose Her, in 2012. He is reported to be working on another novel, entitled Monstro. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow.
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