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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

2007 335 pages Faber & Faber National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=2007 ISBN 9780571246205 Read in 2020

#11 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Osca