For a similarly connected set of short stories, see The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat, an award-winning Haitian-American writer.
For another coming-of-age tale centering on Dominican-American experience, see How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, a 1991 novel by Julia Alvarez.
For the continuation of the character of Yunior, see Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.