The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Diaz explores the Dominican-American experience through the character of Oscar Wao, a sweet ghetto nerd living in New Jersey with his old world mother and rebellious sister. Despite a curse that has haunted his family for generations, Oscar is undeterred in following his dream.

Winner of numerous prizes including The Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year, one of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century, and many more.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is available in all formats at public libraries and bookstores.