The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao By Junot Díaz, Riverhead Books, Hardcover, 2007, 335 pages, $24.95
Since Junot Díaz dropped his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, in late summer of this year, he’s gotten some pretty good (sycophantic) reviews. While I wish my review could offer something different, it won’t. It is hard to do anything but love a book that contains all the tragicomedy of a Sam Beckett play, plus a little bit of something else (call it outrage).
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