Junot Diaz and his immigrant family came to America from the Dominican Republic. Traditionally, families send money back home to help fill the void of absence and distance. But they didn’t have much money to send and to help support their own household. Diaz’s father worked odd jobs, he always got fired from, and his mother was a stay home mom. Any little money their mother could get her hands on, she put it away, and every six months, she sent it to her parents. One summer, after a family vacation, they came home to a burgherly. The family took it hard; even though it was common in their neighborhood. A couple days later, Junot figured out that his “friends” had been the ones to have robbed them. He came up with a plan to steal back his family’s