Pulitzer Prize in 2008, and written by American-Dominican Junot Diaz, is a partially autobiographical novel that tells the story of the Cabrales, a family of Dominican immigrants in the USA. The story is non-linear and covers a time span that goes from 1944 to 1995. There is a part that follows the life of the Cabrales American children in the USA following a natural chronology and line of events, while another part tells the story of their parents and grandparents from the present to the past, in reverse order.