The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao: A Review
Junot Diaz's The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao Logistics Title: The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao Author: Junot Diaz Published: September 6, 2007 Publishing Company: Riverhead Books Page Count: 335 Summary via Goodreads Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who 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 fukú — the ancient curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still dreaming of his first kiss, is only its most recent victim - until the fateful summer that he decides to be its last. My Thoughts I absolutely loved this book to the moon and back! I read this while vacationing in San Francisco two years ago and couldn't put it down. Even thought it...