“That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside wouldn't let me.” SchoolFictionInner TurmoilHigh School Dropout Book:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Thainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú Americanus, or more colloquially, fukú-generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and Doom of the New World.” FictionCurseDominican RepublicDominicanAntillesTainos Book:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao