You Named that Bookcover!

Another (literally) wondrous week of Name That Bookcover has run its course - and there's another lucky Missoulian who has earned a sweet MPL booklight! Congrats to Becky M on Facebook for her correct guess!

Here's a synopsis of Junot Díaz's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel , The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao:
Paralleling his own experiences growing up in the Dominican Republic and New Jersey, author Junot Díaz has choreographed a family saga at once sanguinary and sexy that confronts the horrific brutality at loose during the reign of the dictator Trujillo. Díaz's besieged characters look to the supernatural for explanations and hope, from fukú, the curse unleashed when Europeans arrived on Hispaniola, to the forces dramatized in the works of science fiction and fantasy so beloved by the chubby ghetto nerd Oscar Wao, the brilliantly realized boy of conscience at the center of this whirlwind tale. Writing in a combustible mix of slang and lyricism, Díaz loops back and forth in time and place, generating sly and lascivious humor in counterpoint to tyranny and sorrow. And his characters Oscar, the hopeless romantic; Lola, his no-nonsense sister; their heartbroken mother; and the irresistible homeboy narrator cling to life with the magical strength of superheroes, yet how vibrantly human they are. Propelled by compassion, Díaz's novel is intrepid and radiant. --Donna Seaman Copyright 2007 Booklist From: Syndetics Solutions, Inc.


Where can you find this intriguing piece of fiction, you ask? You'll find it under fiction DIAZ, certainly, but there are a couple other spots: an audio version can be downloaded from Overdrive or you can pick up a physical copy from our Staff Picks shelf.

You have nine more chances to Name That Bookcover and be entered into a raffle for a fabulous MPL booklight! Check back this Monday for our next exhilarating installment of Name That Bookcover and be sure to make a guess! You can submit online via the MPL blog, Twitter, or Facebook pages, or see a friendly staff person at the Missoula Public Library Accounts Desk to make a submission in person.