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Junot Díaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) 3 stars

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. From the back cover: "Oscar is a sweet but disastrously …

Review of 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I am beginning to suspect that Oscar was basically Harold Lauder, but written as a fully developed character, sympathetically. And of course with the multigenerational Latino style à la Isabelle Allende or Gabriel Garcia Marquez... like basically Stephen King rewritten by an author with talent, remixed through Los Bros, Marvel and DC comics. It's pretty meta.