The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz 2007

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
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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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