The Pulitzer Prize winners were recently announced and Junot Diaz's novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the award for fiction. This is the first novel for Dominican-American author Diaz, which also won the National Book Critics' Circle Award and was a 2007 New York Times Notable Book. The story follows the life of Oscar, an overweight, nerdy Dominican boy, from childhood to his untimely death as an adult. The narrator, Yunior tells of Oscar's struggle to make friends, lose weight, and find a woman to love him.
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