prologue
IKE GREAT WRITERS before him, Junot Diaz can’t leave himself off the page. In his three works — Drown, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and his new book, This Is How You
Lose Her — Yunior, Diaz’s literary alter ego, looms large. We
first encounter Yunior in the short story collection Drown as a
young adolescent torn between the projects of New Jersey and
the open campos of the Dominican Republic. In Oscar Wao