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mlej 's review for:
This Is How You Lose Her
by Junot Díaz
Believe it or not, I am not a male Hispanic American from the Dominican Republic who grew up in the eighties, so I had trouble relating to the narrative voice in these stories. Or this novel. Or whatever. But even in the midst of not understanding half of what is being said, Diaz pulls out sentences so beautifully crafted that your breath catches in your chest and everyone around you on the bus gives you weird looks. Not the most memorable of stories, and the lack of resolution was disappointing, but worth reading for those moments of astonishing turns-of-phrase.