juliehirt 's review for:

The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

3.0

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I really enjoyed this novel. I had heard a lot about it when it won the Pulitzer and bought a copy. Just before I started it a few weeks ago, I read some of the reviews about it on Good Reads and wondered if it wouldn't live up to the hype. But to me, it did. Although the footnotes could be a bit much - I thought the history behind the book was fascinating (I didn't know that much about the DR) and the voice fresh and real.