This Is How You Lose Her

from SamSattler

Junot Díaz's This Is How You Lose Her, a nine-story collection, is the author's follow-up to his 2008 Pulitzer-winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Seven of the stories were first published in The New Yorker between February 1998 and July 2012, one in Glimmer Train in 1998, and an...

from BALE

This is How You Lose Her is a novel made up of interrelated short stories. They are linked by the cultural and environmental influences that affect race and family. The trickle-down effect, so-to-speak, is the objectification of women. The result is harsh and dark. However, the author infiltrates...

from LoveAtFirstBook

This is How You Lose Her is a novel written in short story form. The main character, Yunior, is a tragic but compelling individual. I really liked him, even though he liked to sleep around on his women and had some of his own issues to get over. Living in America but born in Santo Domingo, Yunior...

from browner56

Sometimes, it pays to keep riding a winner. In This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz once again focuses his considerable writing skills on the exploits of Yunior, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who now lives in the northeastern United States. In a collection of short stories so connected...

from tonile.helena

Prior to reading This is How You Lose Her, I'd never read any Junot Díaz. For a long time, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (winner of the Pulitzer Fiction Prize in 20008) has sat in my To Be Read pile. For a long time, I have not touched it, but I do feel more motivated to pick it up now. Th...