Here are a few things that you probably didn’t know about Junot Díaz, the author who wrote The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
6 memorable quotes from Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle kicks off its sixth season with music inspired by Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I wanted to learn more about both the author and the book in preparation for the show. I took to the Internet to find out some additional facts.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a coming of age story that uses magical realism to illustrate how main character Oscar navigates adolescence, finding love and an ancient family curse. Author Junot Díaz won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel and the Pulitzer Board described the book as “a dazzling, richly layered novel about an overweight, nerdy Dominican-American teenager who comes of age in a multi-generational immigrant family, devouring comic books, spinning fantasies and searching for love.”
5 Facts About Author Junot Díaz
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6 Quotes From Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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