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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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February 28, 2015
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March 10, 2015

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Ketutar Jensen
Jul 08, 2022 rated it really liked it
The f-ing thing never arrived...
*sigh*

It wasn't what I thought it would be.
The narration begins in Oscar's childhood, but the story itself starts back in the 50s, or so, with Oscar's grandfather being imprisoned and his family broken, and assumably cursed, to never be able to succeed in love.
Only the youngest daughter survives and is rescued by her aunt, who raises her. She has her own unhappy love story with a "gangster" when she was 15-16, which ended with her being sent to New York to keep h
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