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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

★ 3.9/5 Goodreads
Literary FictionMagical Realism
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

An overweight Dominican nerd from New Jersey searches for love and confronts his family's curse.

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“Junot Díaz's Pulitzer winner fuses Dominican history, geek culture, and literary ambition into something entirely original.”

Junot Díaz's Pulitzer winner fuses Dominican history, geek culture, and literary ambition into something entirely original.

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