Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao

Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
J. Diaz

335 pp.
Faber and Faber, 2008
9780571241231

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 J R R Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. This title presents the lives of Oscar and his family and their attempts to find love and belonging.