Book description
Junot Diaz's new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a
collection of linked narratives about love - passionate love, illicit
love, dying love, maternal love - told through the lives of New Jersey
Dominicans, as they struggle to find a point where their two worlds
meet. In prose that is endlessly energetic and inventive, tender and
funny, it lays bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of
the human heart. Most of all, these stories remind us that the habit
of passion always triumphs over experience and that 'love, when it
hits us for real, has a half-life of forever.'
Junot Díaz is the author of Drown and The Brief
Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the National Book Critics
Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. He is the recipient of a
PEN/Malamud Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Born in Santo
Domingo, Díaz is a professor at MIT.
