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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 2007
- Pages
- Pages 340
An overweight, sci-fi-obsessed Dominican-American boy in New Jersey longs desperately for love, under a family curse traced to a dictator's old cruelty, and it finally kills him at the one moment he gets what he wanted.
They say it first came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved
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