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Junot Diaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He and his family immigrate to New Jersey while he was seven years old. He is a big fan of reading, often walking four miles in order to borrow books from the public library. He graduated from Rutgers University as majoring in English. He has creative and simple writing skills, even though English is my second language, I can still understand his writing easily. He started writing books after he graduated college. Fiesta is one of his best American short story.

Diaz starts the story by saying "Mami's youngest sister - my Tia Yrma……" in this sentence we can see that this story is in first person point of view and he is a brother of Tia Yrma. After he and his family move into
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