The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) [B1297]

2008 PB in nice clean condition. Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read and named one of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years.

Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who-from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister-dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú-a curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere-and risk it all-in the name of love.

From recent MIXED Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Spectacular and so well written. Read this before moving to the DR and it felt like an accurate introduction looking back now. I would like to reread now that I live here. Honestly it started so raunchy and I didn't think I would like it and I ended up loving it. The first chapter started very strong and it set the tone."; "Sprawling, inquisitive, and a tragically empathetic look at generational trauma, this book is a genuine glimpse of those who straddle worlds and reside in none."; "OMG... so much ick. Nope. DNF."; "A strange and disturbing book. I read it as part of my Pulitzer reading goal. Perhaps I'm the wrong generation, or perhaps this is a very rank, tragic story."; "This was one of my favorite books in high school. I re-read it so many times back then. I recently came across a copy in a box of free books on the street in my neighborhood and it felt like the universe was bringing the book back to me. It was just as good as I remembered, if not better. There is just something really special here."