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This is Junot Diaz, so of course it was fantastic. His writing, as always, is fresh, funny, unexpected and gloriously, unapologetically bilingual. Yunior, suspiciously autobiographical, is an asshole, in that you'd never want him to be your real-life boyfriend, and simultaneously sympathetic, so you feel like his assholery is something from which you really, really root for him to recover. And every moment of it is so real you can't help but love everything about Diaz tragicomedy; it's brash and
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I wasn't paying attention and didn't realize this was a book of short stories until I was into it, which is my fault, but definitely colored me confused. The characters of the stories are sometimes connected, but I couldn't always see it. The writing was sometimes great, but... I was sometimes lost. I thought I could get by on context, but the Dominican slang kept flying over my head, and I spent too long trying to figure out what he meant. (When in doubt, assume it's derogatory, is what I came
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