Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The Lucky-You-Survived Mother


The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz

The novel is ostensibly about the title character, Oscar, a 300-pound “lovesick ghetto nerd,” and his multi-generational family struggling under a Dominican curse, but his mom, Beli, nearly steals the story as an angry, abusive mother who doesn't know how to back down.

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