Junot Díaz + Julie Otsuka

As with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the Pulitzer-winning Díaz’s latest book, This Is How You Lose Her,continues to strike a compelling balance between worlds. In 2011, Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic detailed the world of “picture brides” from Japan with the same straightforward, powerful prose as the author used in When the Emperor Was Divine.