Junot Diaz: The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

As an English major and a cultured person, I found it hard at first to like this book. It is violent. It is written in a mixture of English and street Spanish. In other words, it is vulgar and full of slang. Yet it is so good at narrating the stories of the people in the Dominican Republic and later, Dominicans here in America, that it won me over and I had to say, "Wow!" This book won the Pulitzer Prize.