The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2008. Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next Tolkien and keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukú - the curse that has haunted his family for generations. With dazzling energy and insight Díaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar; his sister Lola; their beautiful mother Belicia; and in the family's uproarious journey from the Dominican Republic to the US and back.