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Nov. 10: Alumni Book Club Meeting Features The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
November 10, 2009
Date: Tuesday, November 10
Time: 5:30-7 p.m.
Location: MMC, Regina Peruggi Room (2nd Floor, Main Building)
Cost: Free (Refreshments and snacks will be served)
Contact: Shelli Luchs at sluchs@mmm.edu or call (212) 517-0458.
On November 10, the Alumni Book Club will discuss Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Ten years after his acclaimed short story collection Drowned, Junot Diaz returns with a lollapalooza of a debut novel centered on a grotesquely overweight Dominican-American teenager named Oscar. Lonely, loveless, and living almost completely inside his own head, Oscar is a “ghetto nerd” whose multiple obsessions include comic books, fantasy fiction, and supremely unobtainable women. In a story that moves back and forth between the Dominican Republic and Paterson, New Jersey, Diaz illuminates the tragic arc of Dominican history (especially under the brutal Trujillo regime) in the lives of Oscar’s sister, mother, grandmother and aunt.
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