Lin-Manuel Miranda Turns A Junot Díaz Masterpiece Into A Must-Have Audiobook

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Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a story that masterfully braids fiction and the Dominican-American experience, is not only a contemporary American classic, but required reading material in high school and college classrooms throughout the country. Nearly 10 years after it was originally published, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel earns the audio treatment by none other than Broadway’s resident rap genius and musical maestro, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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In a snippet exclusively presented by TIME, Miranda narrates from the section where the mother of Oscar (the protagonist) learns she is pregnant. Miranda, in all his flair, explains why she broadcasted the news to the neighborhood:

The new audiobook, from Penguin Audio, is out Tuesday (Dec. 27).

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“I’m so far ahead of my time; I’m bout to start another life/ Look behind you, I’m bout to pass you twice.”- Jay Z

“Youngins ice grillin’ me, oh you not feeling me/Fine, it cost you nothing/Pay me no mind”

“I’d rather die enormous than live dormant”

“They giveth and they taketh life is cruel that way/But even a broken clock is right at least two times a day”

“A wise man told me don’t argue with fools, cause people from a distance can’t tell who is who.”

“Swear to everything, when I leave this Earth, it’s gon’ be on both feet, never knees in the dirt”

“No one said it would be easy, n**** livin’ is work”

“I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying”

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