The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

I felt that this was really just all over the place. It had the bones of a great novel but the switching character focus and time jumps just really did not flow well, and the footnotes felt like a chore to get through and added to the disruption of the narration. It's clear that Diaz has some fascinating observations about immigration but it really seemed to me that the structure of this novel was hindering these observations from being properly ...read more