Drown

This book, a collection of short stories, is written in the same style as Diaz' novel, The Short Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao. While the novel provides the scope for this voice to flower and bloom in spectacular fashion, the stories tend to sound flat and forced as one peters out and another tentatively fades in. To torture the flower analogy the stories are like seeds that could have nurtured into spectacular blooms but once planted, ignored while the next is prepared. Lots of potential here, unrealized.