~ Trade Paperback

~ Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 2008, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction - 2007, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - 2007, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award - 2008, the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction - 2008, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction - 2008, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction - 2008

Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd who dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien, but most of all, of finding love . . . 

A true literary triumph, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao immerses readers in the tumultuous life of Oscar and the history of the Wao family at large, rendering with genuine warmth and dazzling energy, humor, and insight the Dominican-American experience, and, ultimately, the endless human capacity to persevere in the face of heartbreak and loss.