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Based on a short story he wrote for The New Yorker, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is Junot Diaz's first novel and second book, coming almost ten years after his beautiful and award-winning collection of stories, Drown. Spanning multiple generations and told by a couple different narrators, Oscar Wao is a kaleidoscopic history of the fuku ("the Curse and Doom of the New World") and its disastrous effects on Oscar's family. Its original title, The Beauty!, does a better job of matching the
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Sep 10, 2017
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