This is The New Yorker Out Loud from The New Yorker Magazine.

I'm Deborah Treesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

Each month we ask a New Yorker fiction writer to select a story from our archives to read

and discuss.

This month, Edwitch Dantakette chose How Did A To Brown Girl, Black Girl, White Girl,

or Halfi by Juno Diaz, which was first published in the magazine in 1995.

It was included in Diaz's first book, Drown, a collection of stories set in the barrios

of the Dominican Republic and in the hoods of New Jersey, published by Riverhead.

The book caused a sensation when it came out in 1996.

It's now in its 23rd printing.

The story is what the title says it is, dating instructions for a Dominican teenager living

in urban New Jersey.

If the girls from around the way take it to Elsie-Bowell for dinner, order everything in your

busted up Spanish.

Let her correct you if she's Latina and her mazer if she's black.

And she's not from around the way Wendy's will do.

This month's story was selected from The New Yorker Archives by Edwitch Dantakette, who

has been publishing fiction in the magazine since 1999.

She is the author of several books of fiction, including Crick Crack, The Farming of Bones,

and The Doobraker.

In this year's summer fiction issue, we published a piece adapted from her forthcoming memoir,

Brother I'm Dying, About Her Family in Haiti.

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