The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz, 2007
A Dominican-American nerd's search for love and belonging, told with footnotes, comic-book obsession and a family curse that spans generations.
Junot Díaz
Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic in 1968 and immigrated to New Jersey at six; The Brief Wondrous Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008.
Feels like identity, longing and family.
What if a curse arrived in the Caribbean on the screams of the enslaved?
They say it came first from Africa, carried on the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Books by Junot Díaz
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