The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Essential Passages by Character: Oscar de Leon
Essential Passage 1: Chapter 1
I’m not entirely sure Oscar would have liked this designation. Fukú story. He was a hardcore sci-fi and fantasy man, believed that that was the kind of story we were all living in. He'd ask: What more sci-fi than the Santo Domingo? What more fantasy than the Antilles?
But now that I know how it all turns out, I have to ask, in turn: What more fukú?
Summary
Yunior, Oscar’s best friend and college roommate, introduces the reader to Oscar and his story. Yunior...
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