A review by thethirdcrouch
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

3.0

I admire how the Spanish and other non-English languages are not italicized here. Somehow rhey seamlessly express the character's emotion and tell the story with such energy and urgency. It is indeed full of sex, raciness, libido that you'd think the main character of Yunior is just sex-addict and every other emotion is pointless. Maybe. But the interwoving stories are really engaging even if, I'd just realized, that mostly it's set in a small space; living room, bedroom, in a car, the kitchen. I admire how honest the characters are portrayed especially Yunior with all the flaws that until the end I hoped he'd manage to grow out of. I wonder if it's love, lust, or both. But this book at least tries to show to us how important faithfulness and honesty in a relationship is.
I wonder if the woman at the first part of the book, I believe Alma, is same with the seemingly true love he can't get over with at the latter part. Maybe a second read would help.