The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Oscar is a sweet but disatrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the Domincian J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú-a curse that has haunted Oscar´s family for generations, following them on their epic jouney from the Dominican Republic to the United States and back again.