memorysnow reviewed The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a 2007 novel written by Dominican American …
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3 stars
Rounding up from 2.5 stars. Character-driven books tend to frustrate me, and this felt like 350+ pages of exposition. Also, footnotes--ugh! The history of the Dominican Republic under Trujillo's tyranny was far better illustrated through the characters' stories than told through the footnotes, which for me only served to break the flow of the prose.