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“Junot Díaz writes in an idiom so electrifying and distinct it’s practically an act of aggression, at once enthralling, even erotic in its assertion of sudden intimacy… [It is] a syncopated swagger-step between opacity and transparency, exclusion and inclusion, defiance and desire… His prose style is so irresistible, so sheerly entertaining, it risks blinding readers to its larger offerings. Yet he weds form so ideally to content that instead of blinding us, it becomes the very lens through which we can see the joy and suffering of the signature Díaz subject: what it means to belong to a diaspora, to live out the possibilities and ambiguities of perpetual insider/outsider status.” –The New York Times Book Review "Nobody does scrappy, sassy, twice-the-speed of sound dialogue better than Junot Díaz. His exuberant short story collection, called This Is How You Lose Her, charts the lives of Dominican immigrants for whom the promise of America comes down to a minimum-wage paycheck, an occasional walk to a movie in a mall and the momentary escape of a grappling in bed." –Maureen Corrigan, NPR “Exhibits the potent blend of literary eloquence and street cred that earned him a Pulitzer Prize… Díaz’s prose is vulgar, brave, and poetic.” –O Magazine “Searing, irresistible new stories… It’s a harsh world Díaz conjures but one filled also with beauty and humor and buoyed by the stubborn resilience of the human spirit.” –People “Junot Díaz has one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic… The strongest tales are those fueled by the verbal energy and magpie language that made Brief Wondrous Life so memorable and that capture Yunior’s efforts to commute between two cultures, Dominican and American, while always remaining an outsider.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “These stories… are virtuosic, command performances that mine the deceptive, lovelorn hearts of men with the blend of tenderness, comedy and vulgarity of early Philip Roth. It's Díaz's voice that's such a delight, and it is every bit his own, a melting-pot pastiche of Spanglish and street slang, pop culture and Dominican culture, and just devastating descriptive power, sometimes all in the same sentence.” –USA Today “Impressive… comic in its mopiness, charming in its madness and irresistible in its heartfelt yearning.” –The Washington Post "The dark ferocity of each of these stories and the types of love it portrays is reason enough to celebrate this book. But the collection is also a major contribution to the short story form... It is an engrossing, ambitious book for readers who demand of their fiction both emotional precision and linguistic daring." –NPR “The centripetal force of Díaz’s sensibility and the slangy bar-stool confidentiality of his voice that he makes this hybridization feel not only natural and irresistible, but inevitable, the voice of the future… [This is How You Lose Her] manages to be achingly sad and joyful at the same time. Its heart is true, even if Yunior’s isn’t.” –Salon “[A] propulsive new collection… [that] succeeds not only because of the author's gift for exploring the nuances of the male… but because of a writing style that moves with the rhythm and grace of a well-danced merengue.” –Seattle Times “In Díaz’s magisterial voice, the trials and tribulations of sex-obsessed objectifiers become a revelation.” –The Boston Globe “Scooch over, Nathan Zuckerman. New Jersey has bred a new literary bad boy… A.” –Entertainment Weekly “Ribald, streetwise, and stunningly moving—a testament, like most of his work, to the yearning, clumsy ways young men come of age.” –Vogue “[An] excellent new collection of stories… [Díaz is] an energetic stylist who expertly moves between high-literary storytelling and fizzy pop, between geek culture and immigrant life, between romance and high drama.” –IndieBound “Taken together, [these stories’] braggadocio softens into something much more vulnerable and devastating. The intimacy and immediacy… is not just seductive but downright conspiratorial… A heartbreaker.” –The Daily Beast "Díaz manages a seamless blend of high diction and low, of poetry and vulgarity… Look no further for home truths on sex and heartbreak." –The Economist “This collection of stories, like everything else [Díaz has] written, feels vital in the literal sense of the word. Tough, smart, unflinching, and exposed, This is How You Lose Her is the perfect reminder of why Junot Díaz won the Pulitzer Prize… [He] writes better about the rapid heartbeat of urban life than pretty much anyone else." –The Christian Science Monitor “Filled with Díaz’s signature searing voice, loveable/despicable characters and so-true-it-hurts goodness.” –Flavorwire “Díaz writes with subtle and sharp brilliance… He dazzles us with his language skills and his story-making talents, bringing us a narrative that is starkly vernacular and sophisticated, stylistically complex and direct… A spectacular read.” –Minneapolis Star-Tribune "[This is How You Lose Her] has maturity in content, if not in ethical behavior… Díaz’s ability to be both conversational and formal, eloquent and plainspoken, to say brilliant things Trojan-horsed in slang and self-deprecation, has a way of making you put your guard completely down and be effected in surprising and powerful ways." –The Rumpus “As tales of relationship redemption go, each of the nine relatable short stories in Junot Díaz's consummate collection This Is How You Lose Her triumphs… Through interrogative second-person narration and colloquial language peppered with Spanish, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author authentically captures Junior's cultural and emotional dualities.” –Metro “Searing, sometimes hilarious, and always disarming… Readers will remember why everyone wants to write like Díaz, bring him home, or both. Raw and honest, these stories pulsate with raspy ghetto hip-hop and the subtler yet more vital echo of the human heart.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Díaz’s standout fiction remains pinpoint, sinuous, gutsy, and imaginative… Each taut tale of unrequited and betrayed love and family crises is electric with passionate observations and off-the-charts emotional and social intelligence… Fast-paced, unflinching, complexly funny, street-talking tough, perfectly made, and deeply sensitive, Díaz’s gripping stories unveil lives shadowed by prejudice and poverty and bereft of reliable love and trust. These are precarious, unappreciated, precious lives in which intimacy is a lost art, masculinity a parody, and kindness, reason, and hope struggle to survive like seedlings in a war zone.” –Booklist (starred review) “Díaz’s third book is as stunning as its predecessors. These stories are hard and sad, but in Díaz’s hands they also crackle.” –Library Journal (starred review) “Magnificent… an exuberant rendering of the driving rhythms and juicy Spanglish vocabulary of immigrant speech… sharply observed and morally challenging.” –Kirkus “A beautifully stirring look at ruined relationships and lost love—and a more than worthy follow-up to [Díaz’s] 2007 Pulitzer winner, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” –Bookpage "In This Is How You Lose Her, Díaz writes with subtlety and grace, once again demonstrating his remarkable facility for developing fully-realized and authentic characters with an economical rawness... Díaz skillfully portrays his protagonist so vividly, and with so much apparent honesty, that Yunior’s voice comes across with an immediacy that never once feels inauthentic." –California Literary Review "Díaz continues to dazzle with his dynamite, street-bruised wit. The bass line of this collection is a thumpingly raw and sexual foray into lives that claw against poverty and racism. It is a wild rhythm that makes more vivid the collection’s heart-busted steadiness." –Dallas Morning News
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About the Author
Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist; and a debut picture book, Islandborn. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Product details
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Books; Reprint edition (September 3, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594631778
ISBN-13: 978-1594631771
Product Dimensions:
5.1 x 0.6 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
913 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#24,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This was my first foray into Junot Diaz and it was as painful as the title suggests. It's also pretty self referential which also stings.Junior's relationships with the women in his life is a giant billboard for how people get trapped in the grooves and struggle to change in spite of their desire to do so. There's also an element of the external witness who sees Yunior's train coming vs. the internal Yunior who wanders along looking only at the tracks. He's always surprised each time he gets hit.I really loved reading this book. There are some really funny laugh out loud moments and quite a lot of times I was sucking air through my teeth hoping for a different outcome and knowing it wouldn't change.The book is also beautifully crafted with sharp, sharp descriptive and beautiful images of the world Yunior inhabits. I especially loved the descriptions of the women in Yuniors' life but all of the other characters, in particular his brother, are alive with depth.I struggled with the Spanish along the way and ended up using google translate on my phone to read my iPad which worked well. Understanding the Spanish added a lot so I recommend taking the time to do that.I'm looking forward to reading more Junot Diaz. Thank you as always to my friend for the recommendation. <3
   This novel was AMAZING!! The author did a great job of creating Yunior as a very likeable, but troubled character. Through writing techniques, such as changing the point of view each chapter, readers are able to understand each character personally and also how each character views one another. For me, however, while most of the time I liked the switches in perspective, it a lot of the time wasn’t clear who was speaking until the end of the chapter. I think the author should have clarified when the speaker changed and to who it changed to, then it wouldn’t have caused as much confusion for me. He might have been doing that on purpose, so you had to figure out who was talking and their relations to the other characters, but I personally did not know who was speaking in many of the chapters. The ongoing conflict in the book that Yunior, his brother, and his dad having relationship and commitment issues helps to shape the theme that relationships require hard work and more than just love in order to be successful. This is very well exhibited in the last chapter, “The Cheater’s Guide to Love,†when Yunior is head over heels for a girl and then cheats on her anyways despite his love for her. The author also uses an interesting diction choice of mixing of spanish and english throughout the book to portray the importance of background, culture, and the immense role that it plays in the characters lives. Having a spanish to english dictionary nearby is definitely a must when reading because the spanish words pop up during significant moments in the book, which again emphasizes the thematic topic of cultural importance. A symbol that is brought up throughout the book is snow. Snow is mostly mentioned when Yunior is a young boy and is wanting to go play in the snow, and his dad won’t let him. I believe the repetition of snow throughout the novel is to represent wanting something they can’t have. Wanting things the characters don’t have and not being content with what they do have is another major theme. Although this theme is mostly related to relationships and heartbreak, it is also portrayed when talking about the hardships, but also the benefits of moving to the United States. Diaz also uses a very unique syntax technique of not putting in any quotation marks. I loved this so much when I was reading because at times I wasn’t sure whether the characters were speaking out loud or if it was the thoughts in their head. I think this gave me a chance as a reader to interpret some actions and made me wonder and think about what was happening much more. Overall, it was an amazing book with a riveting plot and great, compelling descriptive language that made it impossible to put down.
This book has a wrap around which explicates the three short stories in the center. Diaz’s writing style remains enticingly conversational. You feel like you are listening to someone’s personal story, but as a reader it is not a character you really want to embody. His ‘love map’ has been seriously screwed up because of the examples his father and brother have demonstrated with the women in their lives. In fact, no man the main character interacts with has a healthy, loving, faithful relationship with any woman in their lives. Without spoiling the plot, as the wrap around plot with the main characters continues the chronological plot, Yunior’s physical body begins breaking down after he destroys his relationship with his fiancé. In the end, the half life of love is infinite.This is an easy read, but I couldn’t help but wonder, even though this book was written well before the ‘me too’ movement, how these seemingly semi-autobiographical characters, reflect on the allegations leveled at Diaz by female students and interns. I enjoy the voice. I don’t like the way men from the Dominican Republic are all portrayed as misogynistic users of women.
I had heard all about this author and this was the first book of his that I read. I was caught off guard at first by how 'colloquial' the language was. But because of that, the story was very real, raw, sincere, touching. Throughout the book I was left wondering what portion of the book was autobiography, memoir, fiction, or fiction loosely based on reality. I still don't know the answer, but I haven't dug too much to find out because in some ways I think it is better to be left debating with myself regarding where I think it falls along the spectrum. I would definitely recommend the book to others as an example of modern high quality literature rooted outside of the 'mainstream' (read: whitewashed) literary circles.
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