What I'm Reading: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Yuppers, my mission to bring back "the novel" in my life continues. I was really pleased to read that Junot Diaz (author of the short story collection, Drowned) won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his debut novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I had read Drowned years and years ago, and quite enjoyed the stories. I haven't actually started reading his new novel, but will do so soonish. The New York Times wrote a glowing review of it months ago. My favorite line from the review:

Junot Díaz’s “Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” is a wondrous, not-so-brief first novel that is so original it can only be described as Mario Vargas Llosa meets “Star Trek” meets David Foster Wallace meets Kanye West. (Source)

That first sentence, alone, sold me.