Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The - Junot Diaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
2007
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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 ...