By Junot Díaz
Oscar is a candy yet disastrously obese ghetto nerd who—from the hot Jersey domestic he stocks together with his previous global mom and rebellious sister—dreams of changing into the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, such a lot of all, discovering love. yet Oscar might by no means get what he desires. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s kin for generations, following them on their epic trip from Santo Domingo to the us. Encapsulating Dominican-American background, The short Wondrous lifetime of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an wonderful imaginative and prescient of the modern American adventure and explores the never-ending human skill to persevere—and hazard it all—in the identify of love.
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