The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

There are other architectural choices.

Because if Pachinko handles the weight of history through sheer stoic forward motion, Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao handles it by doing the exact opposite.

I mean, it processes history through absolute frantic hyperactivity.

It is a remarkable structural contrast, because here we are still dealing with the shadow of a brutal regime, in this case, the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.

Y- you just get sucked into the absurdity of it.

And speaking of getting sucked into a uniquely weird life, we have Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

A massive Pulitzer-winning bestseller.

Oh, yeah.