The most talked about?and praised?first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who?from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister? dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fuk a curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere?and risk it all?in the name of love.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 09/02/2008
ISBN: 9781606868201
Pages: 335
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.17h x 5.08w x 1.14d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 122410 / Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Reading Level: 6.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 16