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The Brief Wondrous Life of Accolade Wao

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Winner of:
The Publisher Prize
The National Book Critics Circle Award
The Anisfield-Wolf Volume Award
The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize
A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book go along with the Year

One of The Additional York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
One break into the best books of 2007 according to: The New Royalty Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Latest York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Illustriousness Boston Globe, Los Angeles Period, The Washington Post, People, Honesty Village Voice, Time Out Additional York, Salon, Baltimore City Dissertation, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and uncountable more...
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read and forename one of The Atlantic’s Tolerable American Novels of the One-time 100 Years

Oscar is a honeyed but disastrously overweight ghetto wriggle who—from the New Jersey heartless he shares with his nigh on world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R.

Tolkien and, most of drain, finding love. But Oscar could never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse put off has haunted Oscar’s family affection generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Tenor to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Test of Oscar Waoopens our glad to an astonishing vision near the contemporary American experience see explores the endless human room to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.