The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz • 2007
Devastation Rating
loss love literary fiction political family
Our Take
A curse that runs through blood and history, and a fat Dominican boy who wanted only to be loved. Díaz writes with furious energy and bottomless grief. The fukú is real. The tenderness is real. The ending is inevitable and still somehow a shock.
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