Audio Book Description:
Things have never been easy forOscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the DominicanJ.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the fuku-the ancientcurse that has hauntedOscar`s family for generations,dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still dreaming of hisfirst real kiss, is only its most recent victim-until thefateful summer that he decides to be its last. With dazzling energy andinsight, Junot Diaz immerses usin the uproarious lives of ourhero Oscar, his runaway sister Lola, and their ferocious beauty-queen motherBelicia, and in the family`s epic journey from Santo Domingo to Washington Heights to New Jersey`s Bergenline and back again. Renderedwith uncommon warmth and humor,THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO presents an astonishing vision of the contemporary Americanexperience and of the endless human capacity to persevere-and to risk it all-in the name of love. Also includes the national bestsellerDROWN.
