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Junot Diaz
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to a curse that has haunted his family for generations. And Oscar is just its most recent victim.
Encapsulating Dominican-American history, Diaz opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love. Of Note: World Book Night givers can sign up to give out this book in a Spanish-language edition, La breve y maravillosa de Oscar Wao. This edition will appear in the drop-down menus when you go to select your picks.
Encapsulating Dominican-American history, Diaz opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love. Of Note: World Book Night givers can sign up to give out this book in a Spanish-language edition, La breve y maravillosa de Oscar Wao. This edition will appear in the drop-down menus when you go to select your picks.
