The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
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Literary FictionSep 04, 2008en
Publisher description: 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…
Magical RealismComing-of-Age