The unflinching view of the male experience, the immigrant experience, the Latino experience, opinions--correct or not--the less correct usually delivered in Dominican scented Spanish - fly like fur and as with all great writing, Junot Diaz wins it on the sentences, one surprising, perfect laugh out loud brilliant choice after another. (Not really, at least). We’d love your help. I didn't like Oscar Wao any better. Díaz’s new story collection, “This Is How You Lose Her,” is his first book in five years and only his third book over all. Twelve pages in and this amazing line, "She's sensitive, too. You’ve got a fun, energetic style, and we don’t know any other Dominican writers, so you can keep writing about sucios and morenos and we’ll keep applauding because it’ll seem culturally insensitive to say that, after three books largely focused on your thinly-veiled alter ego, Yunior, it’s time you tried something new. The bass line of this collection is a thumpingly raw and sexual foray into lives that claw against poverty and racism. 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; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. 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. The book is comprised of ninestories,eight of which feature the same narrator, Yunior, and core characters that include his mother, his father, and his brother, Rafa.Each story is discussed below, and in chronological order, as opposed to the order they are presented in the collection. Following Drown (1998) and his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), This Is How You Lose Her is Díaz’s third book. He lives with his brother Rafa and his mother in a small house. The rapture of youth, of stamina, is balanced by an overabundance of sick relatives and low expectations. Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. This slim volume of nine short stories, about the battlefield of love. Read "This Is How You Lose Her" by Junot Díaz available from Rakuten Kobo. 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; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. It is one of those amazingly inclusive books that seems to embrace everything the author knows, while his new collection of short stories, “This Is How You Lose Her,” is a … In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. For this gorgeous new edition, Jaime Hernandez—deemed “one of the twentieth century’s most significant comic creators”—has crafted stunning full-page illustrations, one for each story, that brilliantly capture the love-haunted spirit of the book and of the gutsy women whom irrepressible, irresistible Yunior loves and loses. What exactly is brave, fresh, or exciting about this? Several of the stories feature Yunior, a young Dominican man--sometimes boy--struggling to live up to male culture while at the same time trying to find what's true to himself--while his brother Rafa is a pure heat-seeking missile of sex. And searching. "This Is How You Lose Her" is a collection of short stories by Junot Diaz, centrally revolving around the main character, Yunior. There's a section of the book told from the perspective of a woman. Being with one you don't want. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness—and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses: artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena, who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life, whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own. 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.” … Find books like This Is How You Lose Her from the world’s largest community of readers. I had the honour of attending Junot Diaz's author talk late last month here in Vancouver. Please try again later. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. The latest work since the author's 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao contains nine short stories linked by a common narrator whose tales of love won but mostly lost are recounted with macho bravado. This Is How You Lose Her is a new collection from Junot Diaz ... From the title, it's clear that each of the short stories will end in heartbreak. I picked it up because of the flashy cover, and NOT by the title but was immediately drawn to throw the book into a fire. And in the case of this collection of nine short stories (seven of which were published previously in periodicals) that it took the author ten-plus years to complete, the subjects of which are men who keep cheating on their girlfriends and feeling sorry for themselves when those girlfriends get mad about it, one is acutely underwhelmed. He screws around on women, and when he is caught and discarded there is great chest thumping and hair tearing and he learns...nothing. In the section Otravida Otravez, the narrator (Yasmin) is dating a man (Ramon) who is Yunior and Rafa's father. The stories are related but not told in chronological order… they go forward and backward in time. This is by far one of my favorite books of all time. Even though readers are aware of this from the start, the deterioration of each relationship will hit you. A heartbreak and depression so profound it “feels like you’re being slowly pincered apart, atom by atom.” “The begging, the crawling over glass, the crying” of trying to restore a relationship that you yourself are to blame for destroying. Most of the characters in "Lose Her" are flawlessly interchangeable, all women have long sexy dark hair, all men are extrao. He is a gifted orator, as well as a storyteller. I own all 3 of his books and love when he has a story featured in The New Yorker (which is how I discovered him, many moons ago, in high school). From acclaimed short stories to the dynamite novel that bestowed upon him the nifty Pulitzer--what could the young writer come up with next? J unot Diaz’s latest collection of short stories, This is How You Lose Her, continues to mine the author’s experiences as a Dominican immigrant in New Jersey. 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. There's no such thing as a loyal husband or boyfriend. Great review. This Is How You Lose Her can stand on its own, but fans will be glad to hear that it brings back Yunior, who narrated several of the stories in Díaz's first collection, Drown…Yunior is a gorgeously full-blown character—half the time you want to comfort him, the other half you want to kick him in the pants…In the new book, as previously, Díaz is almost too good for his own good. Easy... a valentine for heartbreak. Why did this jump to the top of the NY Bestseller List? On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. They are immigrants from the Dominican Republic and came to the … In the short story “This Is How You Lose Her” by Junot Diaz Papi plays a dominant role in aims to separate his family from the supposedly “unknown lifestyle of an American”. Most of the characters in "Lose Her" are flawlessly interchangeable, all women have long sexy dark hair, all men are extraordinarily horny, and lives are mainly average, pedestrian, acceptable, nothing new. Is it just that Diaz (who, yes, is a fantastic writer of sentences, however slight their freight) has a corner on this particular slice of the market? Yearning for the one you want. Yet Diaz inflects this struggle with the complicated particulars of cultural exile, of want and of the bravado that is born of fear. Buy, Sep 11, 2012 –Maureen Corrigan, NPR Junot Diaz has always been a favorite author of mine, ever since college when he came to the Latin-American lit class I was taking in '98. We are experiencing technical difficulties. Yunior is a louse. Upon signing my book, he added "thanks for allowing me to help you live the fantasy. In the case of these individuals, the answer is a resounding yes when it comes to loving... On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. 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. 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. What a treasure. Yearning for the one you want. A must-have collector’s edition of Junot Díaz’s bestseller and National Book Award finalist, brilliantly illustrated by celebrated comic artist Jaime HernandezA major New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award, This Is How You Lose Her is Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz’s celebration of love in all its facets—obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. This Is How You Lose Her is the third book by Junot Diaz, and his second story collection. Several of the stories feature Yunior, a young Dominican man--sometimes boy--struggling to live up to male culture while at the same time trying to find what's true to himself--while his brother Rafa is a pure heat-seeking missile of sex. This slim volume of nine short stories, about the battlefield of love. He was there to attend a reading at a bookstore a few doors away. There's cheating. Overview. The first story tells us about Yunior, the main character in the book. Several years ago I lived out a fantasy abetted by Junot Diaz, of which he was unaware. The book is comprised of ninestories,eight of which feature the same narrator, Yunior, and core characters that include his mother, his father, and his brother, Rafa.Each story is discussed below, and in chronological order, as opposed to the order they are presented in the collection. 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. I hate to filter my response to book based upon others' responses to a book, but after a National Book Award nomination, a Guggenheim, and the almost unseemly vocal adoration of seemingly every major reviewer, one comes to a book with certain expectations. ― Junot Díaz, quote from This Is How You Lose Her “Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. Díaz’s prose is punchy and energetic; but its energy reminds me of how CGI is abused in contemporary films—an added dose of color and dazzle that attempts to make up for a lack of substance. | ISBN 9781101596951 I was sitting in a cafe reading the searing conclusion to A Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and upon closing it, looked up and saw the author himself 10 feet away, watching me read his work. On a purely superficial level, I don’t like the style. In the end, his stories and Díaz’s writings make you think. Book Review: 'This is How You Lose Her' by Junot Diaz Junot Diaz's electric new collection of short stories centers around Yunior, a macho yet mournful Dominican-American man. Welcome back. Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, By clicking SIGN UP, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House’s, Editor's Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Stories Read By Your Favorite Celebrities, Contact us about speaking engagements with Junot Diaz, Discover Book Picks from the CEO of Penguin Random House US. I feel exactly the same, Diaz gives the reader an unfortunate and interesting character to follow but by the end of the novel I was left empty of any. Stream This is How You Lose Her, written and read by Junot Diaz by PRH Audio from desktop or your mobile device. Unlike other families, Papi tries to place his family trapped inside, making sure they were apprehensive around their environment. Diaz clearly knows that by polishing all sad descriptions to their utmost pathos-potential he's got in his crafty hands a winner, and he's correct. Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is 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… More about Junot Díaz, “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. Is it because I've never been an immigrant? a.k.a The Various Sexcapades of Yunior and Other Dominican Men. Every reader, reviewer, Tweeter, and MacArthur genius granter was wowed and moved by this book - but me? At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing fo. I felt as though he was constantly trying to maintain my attention, with a punchline, a striking image, a vulgarity. Did anyone else find this book to be boring? “This Is How You Lose Her” is a collection of short stories about lost love, many of which have autobiographical tendencies. 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. In a New Jersey laundry room, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. Watching parents struggle with their own disappointments. Voice, voice, voice. This is a collection of short stories about Yunior. “And that's when I know it's over. All the men in his life are serial cheaters from his father to his brother to his best friend. Refresh and try again. Men are not loyal, never will be loyal, and women shouldn't expect them to be. Yunior is a louse. ", ***I won this book from GoodReads as a free FirstReads giveaway.***. I think it's because one of the books I was reading at the same time (, Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Both were flat and p. Very relieved that others find this as disappointing as I did. FINALIST 2012, Sign up for news about books, authors, and more from Penguin Random House, Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. I didn't like Oscar Wao any better. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness–and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses.In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, these stories lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. 1.) 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. Buy, Oct 31, 2013 I hate to filter my response to book based upon others' responses to a book, but after a National Book Award nomination, a Guggenheim, and the almost unseemly vocal adoration of seemingly every major reviewer, one comes to a book with certain expectations. Yes, there is a pitch that this is part of the Dominican Culture -- but frankly I can speak with women friends of mine from France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Germany and England and every single one of them knows this guy or has dated this clown. SoundCloud This is How You Lose Her, written and read by Junot Diaz by PRH Audio published on 2012-09-11T18:04:14Z. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. I feel exactly the same, Diaz gives the reader an unfortunate and interesting character to follow but by the end of the novel I was left empty of any real feeling, unsure what the final takeaway was. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud. Start by marking “This Is How You Lose Her” as Want to Read: Error rating book. This is How You Lose Her is the title of Junot Diaz’s new short story collection, though it feels most accurate to call it an exposition: this is how you lose her. And this is how you lose her. It feels as if the same story is being told exactly nine times--over and over there are relationships of love and hate, lives filled with disillusion and disappointment. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”, NAIBA Book of the Year for Fiction (2013), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (Shortlist) (2013), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2012), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2012), The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for 'Miss Lora' (2013). Famous people! Easy... a valentine for heartbreak. There's cheating. Voice, voice, voice. 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." Alma has a great Dominican ass and Yunior is a chronic cheater.Alma is a short story in Junot Diaz's book "This is How you Lose Her. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. 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. Díaz’s prose is punchy and energetic; but its energy reminds me of how CGI is abused in contemporary films—an added dose of color and dazzle that attempts to make up for a lack of substance. Drown (Short Story) This Is How You Lose Her - Chapter 3: "Alma" Summary & Analysis . I'm so excited about how much I'm going to love this book. From acclaimed short stories to the dynamite novel that bestowed upon him the nifty Pulitzer--what could the young writer come up with next? He screws around on women, and when he is caught and discarded there is great chest thumpin. A true work of art, inside and out, this is a keepsake that fans will treasure and new readers will delight in discovering. I'm a big fan of Junot. More elsewhere. professor, Mr. Eduardo Lago (even the colloquialisms and the, My friends sometimes ask me why I don’t read more contemporary fiction, and my reaction to this book is a good illustration of the reason. I understood some of it but not a lot. This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz This book is composed of several short stories with Yunior, a Dominican, as the main character. Nine interlinked short tales chronicling ruined relationships, cheating, death, family, and more. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. By that time, I had already read Drown and was on my way to reading Negocios, the Spanish translation of Drown, expertly done by my lit. 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