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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

This novel is a rich tapestry of cultural and historical elements, weaving together the story of Oscar Wao, a young man living in New Jersey, with the epic history of his family and the Dominican Republic. more

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Junot Díaz

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“In New York, I would walk down shadowy sidewalks dreaming of the openness of central Ohio, yearning for roads flanked by fields, for their freedom and isolation. These roads cradled me. I realized this now. I’d been trying to hate Ohio, because it was so hard to be at home. But the land had actually always been there for me all along. As a child, the moon had lit my room on sad nights. I’d wandered cornfields and puttered around at Lehman’s Pond. Those were some of my best childhood memories.”