The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

For my Latin American Studies 101 class we are reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. It is a very interesting book about a Dominican boy growing up in New Jersey. He is a weird kid and has trouble fitting in with his peers but also recieves a lot of grief for not being a good Dominican man because he is not popular with the ladies. It is also a good book if you are interestead in learning about the Trujillo dictatorship and how it impacted the ordinary people in the Dominican Republic.