The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Summary

The novel follows Oscar, an overweight Dominican American science fiction obsessive growing up in New Jersey, while reaching back into his family's history under the Trujillo dictatorship. Díaz mixes English and Spanish, street vernacular and academic footnotes, comic book lore and political horror, conjuring a distinctive transnational voice. Readers widely regard the book as a landmark of twenty first century Latinx fiction.