Junot Diaz continues to document the Dominican American experience in his latest book of short stories, This Is How You Lose Her (2012). It focuses mostly of the life and times of the womanizing Yunior and his brother Rafa. I didn't find these stories as original as Diaz's first collection, Drown. And I was less inclined to sympathize with the protagonist as I was in his impressive debut novel, The Life and Times of Oscar Wao. I think this affected my enjoyment of the stories. Neither Yunior nor Rafa are very sympathetic, and it makes me wonder how much of them are in Diaz, but I suspect he is more life the befuddled Oscar Wao. However, I do think that Diaz is creating a world that is very different from the one I grew up in and inhabit and that is interesting and valuable and I expect I'll read whatever comes next as well.
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