Junot Diaz

Available Sep 11, 2012

Díaz turns his remarkable talent to
the haunting, impossible power of
love – obsessive love, illicit love,
fading love, maternal love. In prose
that is endlessly energetic, inventive,
tender, and funny, the stories in
This Is How You Lose Her lay
bare the infinite longing and inevitable
weakness of the human heart.
They remind us that passion always
triumphs over experience, and that
“the half-life of love is forever.
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• “Exhibits the potent blend of literary eloquence and street cred that earned him a Pulizer Prize … Díaz’s prose is vulgar, brave, and poetic.”

  —O Magazine

• “Searing, sometimes hilarious, and always disarming … Readers will remember why everyone wants to write like Díaz, bring him home, or both.”

  —Publishers Weekly (starred)

• “Díaz’s standout fiction remains pinpoint, sinuous, gutsy, and imaginative.”
  —Booklist (starred review)

• “Díaz’s third book is as stunning as its predecessors. These stories are hard and sad, but in Díaz’s hands they also crackle.”
  —Library Journal (starred)

• “Magnificent…an exuberant rendering of the driving rhythms and juicy Spanglish vocabulary of immigrant speech…sharply observed and morally challenging.”
  —Kirkus

Winner of the 2008 National
Book Critics Circle Award

Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize
for Fiction

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. read more

The 10 tales in this intense debut collection plunge us into the emotional lives of people redefining their American identity. Narrated by adolescent Dominican males living in the struggling communities of the Dominican Republic, New York and New Jersey, these stories chronicle their outwardly cool but inwardly anguished attempts to recreate themselves in the midst of eroding family structures and their own burgeoning sexuality. read more