Junot DĂazâs most popular book is The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), a novel that follows Oscar Wao, a nerdy Dominican American living in New Jersey who struggles to fit in and attributes his failures to a family curse. The story is mostly narrated by Yunior, Oscarâs college roommate. The novel also relates the experiences of Oscarâs rebellious sister and his Dominican-born mother, who was orphaned and enslaved during the brutal dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. In 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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