THE BRIEF AND WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO by Junot Díaz 🇺🇸 BOOK REVIEW [CC] 

@ 3 Years ago a sweet man sparked my memory about this beautiful book sharing how great it was...I hadn't finished it so i picked it up and it broke my heart!

You're the best!!. I have red two more books from Diaz. The last one in Spanish "Negocios" it was okay . Im reading this one now and im like it. I read The Farming of Bones by Danticat . Good book. Keep it going Juan

Great video as always. I appreciate that you acknowledged the controversy surrounding the author and then reviewed the book on its own merit. I read this in a book group and we all loved it. We couldn’t help but love the overweight, shy, geeky Oscar and one of our group shed a few tears as she identified with his struggles. It’s an innovative, interesting, and enjoyable book and I second your recommendation. Deb

Hi, Juan! What a wonderful review. I watched the whole video because I have read this amazing book. Thank you for reading Caribbean authors. Part of reading Caribbean literature is reading authors who write from the diaspora. His uses of language especially, of Dominicanish (Dominican Spanglish) is a bold move in terms of decolonial literature and the subversion of imperialism and colonialism. It is quite an accomplishment to win a Pulitzer Prize with a novel written in Dominicanish!!!!! I enjoyed your excellent review. I would like to recommend The Farming of Bones by the multiple Award Winning Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat. Her novel is about the Trujillo dictatorship from the Haitian side, especially the “perejil” massacre of Haitians during his dictatorship. It is a remarkable look at a historical event. I promise it will not leave you indifferent. Her books are incredibly amazing!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you for reading the Caribbean. My Puerto Rican heart rejoices with this! Un abrazo cálido desde la isla. 🇵🇷

Thank you so much for this video. It was one of the most amazing and helpful reviews during my whole study. Oscar Wao is my pensum text, and I have endlessly enjoyed reading it. I have my exam in a couple of days and now trying to refresh my knowledge about all the books and get some bits of analyses from different smart people :) The way you talk and explain - it's so pleasant to listen and it's so easy to understand! I wish you hundreds of thousand subscribers!

Then I guess I'll bump this book up my TBR list.. 😸

Wait so what was the theme

I’m curious. Have you read his other work? Yunior is a narrator in all his books. Knowing what we know now, I think we can argue that he is a self - insert for the author.