Junot Díaz
Author
Pub. Date
2007
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Adults - Celebrating Hispanic and Latinx voices
Adults - Fiction - Hispanic and Latinx Voices
Adults - Pulitzer Prize Winners - Fiction
Adults - Fiction - Hispanic and Latinx Voices
Adults - Pulitzer Prize Winners - Fiction
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Description
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the fukú–the ancient curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still dreaming of his...
2) Islandborn
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Description
"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland...and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--