Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz

This is the long-awaited first novel from one of the most original and memorable writers working today. Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, 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 the Fuku - the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love.

"Funny, street-smart and keenly observed.... An extraordinarily vibrant book that's fueled by adrenaline-powered prose.... A book that decisively establishes [Diaz] as one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive and irresistible new voices."
--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Astoundingly great.... You could call "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" the saga of an immigrant family, but that wouldn't really be fair. It's an immigrant-family saga for people who don't read immigrant-family sagas."
--Lev Grossman, Time

ZC9580    Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao                      $14.00

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