It feels as if the same story is being told exactly nine times--over and over there are relationships of love and hate, lives filled with disillusion and disappointment. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. What is the all the commotion? Please try again later. Its heart is true, even if Yunior’s isn’t.” –Salon “[A] propulsive new collection… [that] succeeds not only because of the author’s gift for exploring the nuances of the male… but because of a writing style that moves with the rhythm and grace of a well-danced merengue.” –Seattle Times    “In Díaz’s magisterial voice, the trials and tribulations of sex-obsessed objectifiers become a revelation.” –The Boston Globe “Scooch over, Nathan Zuckerman. I was sitting in a cafe reading the searing conclusion to A Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and upon closing it, looked up and saw the author himself 10 feet away, watching me read his work. "This Is How You Lose Her" is a collection of short stories by Junot Diaz, centrally revolving around the main character, Yunior. In the end, his stories and Díaz’s writings make you think. I understood some of it but not a lot. Sep 03, 2013 He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. This is How You Lose Her is the title of Junot Diaz’s new short story collection, though it feels most accurate to call it an exposition: this is how you lose her. What is the all the commotion? In the case of these individuals, the answer is a resounding yes when it comes to loving... On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. The wife who sends letters to Ramon is. An irritating infatuation or overconsciousness of the skin tone and overbearing macho complexes also describes lost loves, doomed relationships, & how perfect they were before they were shattered beyond repair. (Not really, at least). You’ve got a fun, energetic style, and we don’t know any other Dominican writers, so you can keep writing about sucios and morenos and we’ll keep applauding because it’ll seem culturally insensitive to say that, after three books largely focused on your thinly-veiled alter ego, Yunior, it’s time you tried something new. Overview. Nine interlinked short tales chronicling ruined relationships, cheating, death, family, and more. I felt as though he was constantly trying to maintain my attention, with a punchline, a striking image, a vulgarity, rather than trusting in the patience of the reader. | ISBN 9781101596951 Junot Díaz. The book is comprised of ninestories,eight of which feature the same narrator, Yunior, and core characters that include his mother, his father, and his brother, Rafa.Each story is discussed below, and in chronological order, as opposed to the order they are presented in the collection. "This Is How you Lose Her" (SP): The newest one by darling Junot Diaz is so theme-heavy, so break-up-centric, that you soon realize that the writer is a wee less dynamic than we'd originally thought. A heartbreak and depression so profound it “feels like you’re being slowly pincered apart, atom by atom.” “The begging, the crawling over glass, the crying” of trying to restore a relationship that you yourself are to blame for destroying. Rafa's death hangs over several of the stories. Yunior is a louse. What exactly is brave, fresh, or exciting about this? SoundCloud This is How You Lose Her, written and read by Junot Diaz by PRH Audio published on 2012-09-11T18:04:14Z. I felt as though he was constantly trying to maintain my attention, with a punchline, a striking image, a vulgarity. Being with one you don't want. He lives with his brother Rafa and his mother in a small house. A must-have collector’s edition of Junot Díaz’s bestseller and National Book Award finalist, brilliantly illustrated by celebrated comic artist Jaime HernandezA major New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award, This Is How You Lose Her is Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz’s celebration of love in all its facets—obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. See all 8 questions about This Is How You Lose Her…, New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 (fiction and nonfiction), flavorwire most anticipated books of fall 2012, The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows, Serexin Male Enhancement: Avoids inflammation and alleviate discomfort, FIRST BOOK - February - This is How You Lose Her, Bookish Celebrities Share Their Top Reading Recommendations. I'm a big fan of Junot. Men will cheat and fuck anything that moves until they die. Start by marking “This Is How You Lose Her” as Want to Read: Error rating book. His exuberant short story collection, called This Is How You Lose Her, charts the lives of Dominican immigrants for whom the promise of America comes down to a minimum-wage paycheck, an occasional walk to a movie in a mall and the momentary escape of a grappling in bed." Find books like This Is How You Lose Her from the world’s largest community of readers. Read "This Is How You Lose Her" by Junot Díaz available from Rakuten Kobo. We’d love your help. Women are just fucktoys. Men are not loyal, never will be loyal, and women shouldn't expect them to be. Here's hoping that Diaz's characters, led by Yunior, will be given the chance to grow up. I think it's because one of the books I was reading at the same time (, Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. And in the case of this collection of nine short stories (seven of which were published previously in periodicals) that it took the author ten-plus years to complete, the subjects of which are men who keep cheating on their girlfriends and fee. The book is comprised of ninestories,eight of which feature the same narrator, Yunior, and core characters that include his mother, his father, and his brother, Rafa.Each story is discussed below, and in chronological order, as opposed to the order they are presented in the collection. I feel exactly the same, Diaz gives the reader an unfortunate and interesting character to follow but by the end of the novel I was left empty of any real feeling, unsure what the final takeaway was. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. In the section Otravida Otravez, the narrator (Yasmin) is dating a man (Ramon) who is Yunior and Rafa's father. Famous people! There is a lot of Spanish in this book as well. FINALIST 2012, Sign up for news about books, authors, and more from Penguin Random House, Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network. The bass line of this collection is a thumpingly raw and sexual foray into lives that claw against poverty and racism. Why did this jump to the top of the NY Bestseller List? In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. This is by far one of my favorite books of all time. A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His exuberant short story collection, called This Is How You Lose Her, charts the lives of Dominican immigrants for whom the promise of America comes down to a minimum-wage paycheck, an occasional walk to a movie in a mall and the momentary escape of a grappling in bed." Stream This is How You Lose Her, written and read by Junot Diaz by PRH Audio from desktop or your mobile device. In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, the stories in This Is How You Lose Her lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. This Study Guide consists of approximately 33 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of This Is How You Lose Her. All the men in his life are serial cheaters from his father to his brother to his best friend. He was there to attend a reading at a bookstore a few doors away. J unot Diaz’s latest collection of short stories, This is How You Lose Her, continues to mine the author’s experiences as a Dominican immigrant in New Jersey. Print Word PDF. I feel exactly the same, Diaz gives the reader an unfortunate and interesting character to follow but by the end of the novel I was left empty of any. Díaz’s prose is punchy and energetic; but its energy reminds me of how CGI is abused in contemporary films—an added dose of color and dazzle that attempts to make up for a lack of substance. Twelve pages in and this amazing line, "She's sensitive, too. This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz This book is composed of several short stories with Yunior, a Dominican, as the main character. It’s Díaz’s voice that’s such a delight, and it is every bit his own, a melting-pot pastiche of Spanglish and street slang, pop culture and Dominican culture, and just devastating descriptive power, sometimes all in the same sentence.” –USA Today  “Impressive… comic in its mopiness, charming in its madness and irresistible in its heartfelt yearning.” –The Washington Post “The dark ferocity of each of these stories and the types of love it portrays is reason enough to celebrate this book. 1.) "This Is How you Lose Her" (SP): The newest one by darling Junot Diaz is so theme-heavy, so break-up-centric, that you soon realize that the writer is a wee less dynamic than we'd originally thought. Book Review: 'This is How You Lose Her' by Junot Diaz Junot Diaz's electric new collection of short stories centers around Yunior, a macho yet mournful Dominican-American man. Following Drown (1998) and his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), This Is How You Lose Her is Díaz’s third book. This section contains 362 words (approx. Editions: Paperback | Hardcover Deluxe Edition | Spanish Edition. Yet Diaz inflects this struggle with the complicated particulars of cultural exile, of want and of the bravado that is born of fear. Finalist for the 2012 National Book Award A Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012 Finalist for the 2012 Story … I listened to the audio book of this as read by the author, so I don't have page numbers. On a purely superficial level, I don’t like the style. I didn't like Oscar Wao any better. This Is How You Lose Her can stand on its own, but fans will be glad to hear that it brings back Yunior, who narrated several of the stories in Díaz's first collection, Drown…Yunior is a gorgeously full-blown character—half the time you want to comfort him, the other half you want to kick him in the pants…In the new book, as previously, Díaz is almost too good for his own good. Tough, smart, unflinching, and exposed, This is How You Lose Her is the perfect reminder of why Junot Díaz won the Pulitzer Prize… [He] writes better about the rapid heartbeat of urban life than pretty much anyone else.” –The Christian Science Monitor “Filled with Díaz’s signature searing voice, loveable/despicable characters and so-true-it-hurts goodness.” –Flavorwire “Díaz writes with subtle and sharp brilliance… He dazzles us with his language skills and his story-making talents, bringing us a narrative that is starkly vernacular and sophisticated, stylistically complex and direct… A spectacular read.” –Minneapolis Star-Tribune “[This is How You Lose Her] has maturity in content, if not in ethical behavior… Díaz’s ability to be both conversational and formal, eloquent and plainspoken, to say brilliant things Trojan-horsed in slang and self-deprecation, has a way of making you put your guard completely down and be effected in surprising and powerful ways.” –The Rumpus “As tales of relationship redemption go, each of the nine relatable short stories in Junot Díaz’s consummate collection This Is How You Lose Her triumphs… Through interrogative second-person narration and colloquial language peppered with Spanish, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author authentically captures Junior’s cultural and emotional dualities.” –Metro “Searing, sometimes hilarious, and always disarming… Readers will remember why everyone wants to write like Díaz, bring him home, or both. Unfair to ask, but still: Is this the work of "genius"? In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. Several of the stories feature Yunior, a young Dominican man--sometimes boy--struggling to live up to male culture while at the same time trying to find what's true to himself--while his brother Rafa is a pure heat-seeking missile of sex. | ISBN 9781594487361 This is a collection of short stories about Yunior. ― Junot Díaz, quote from This Is How You Lose Her “Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. And searching. –Maureen Corrigan, NPR Voice, voice, voice. He screws around on women, and when he is caught and discarded there is great chest thumpin. This slim volume of nine short stories, about the battlefield of love. Buy, Sep 11, 2012 The stories are related but not told in chronological order… they go forward and backward in time. What a treasure. Did anyone else find this book to be boring? I'm so excited about how much I'm going to love this book. The first story tells us about Yunior, the main character in the book. Voice, voice, voice. By that time, I had already read Drown and was on my way to reading Negocios, the Spanish translation of Drown, expertly done by my lit. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published But the collection is also a major contribution to the short story form… It is an engrossing, ambitious book for readers who demand of their fiction both emotional precision and linguistic daring.” –NPR “The centripetal force of Díaz’s sensibility and the slangy bar-stool confidentiality of his voice that he makes this hybridization feel not only natural and irresistible, but inevitable, the voice of the future… [This is How You Lose Her] manages to be achingly sad and joyful at the same time. I picked it up because of the flashy cover, and NOT by the title but was immediately drawn to throw the book into a fire. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”, NAIBA Book of the Year for Fiction (2013), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (Shortlist) (2013), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2012), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2012), The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for 'Miss Lora' (2013). The wife who sends letters to Ramon is Yunior's mother. It is one of those amazingly inclusive books that seems to embrace everything the author knows, while his new collection of short stories, “This Is How You Lose Her,” is a … Yes, there is a pitch that this is part of the Dominican Culture -- but frankly I can speak with women friends of mine from France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Germany and England and every single one of them knows this guy or has dated this clown. … Released September 11, I heard a a lot of hype for this book by Junot Diaz. A true work of art, inside and out, this is a keepsake that fans will treasure and new readers will delight in discovering. This Is How You Lose Her is the third book by Junot Diaz, and his second story collection. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper." This is how you lost me. Henry Award. Both were flat and p. Very relieved that others find this as disappointing as I did. I liked one story, enjoyed a couple others. We are experiencing technical difficulties. Raw and honest, these stories pulsate with raspy ghetto hip-hop and the subtler yet more vital echo of the human heart.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Díaz’s standout fiction remains pinpoint, sinuous, gutsy, and imaginative… Each taut tale of unrequited and betrayed love and family crises is electric with passionate observations and off-the-charts emotional and social intelligence… Fast–paced, unflinching, complexly funny, street-talking tough, perfectly made, and deeply sensitive, Díaz’s gripping stories unveil lives shadowed by prejudice and poverty and bereft of reliable love and trust. I wanted to see--what is all the fuss about? These are precarious, unappreciated, precious lives in which intimacy is a lost art, masculinity a parody, and kindness, reason, and hope struggle to survive like seedlings in a war zone.” –Booklist (starred review) “Díaz’s third book is as stunning as its predecessors. I own all 3 of his books and love when he has a story featured in The New Yorker (which is how I discovered him, many moons ago, in high school). You gave me flat characters powered by preoccupations with sex and body parts, especially bushy hair, peppered the prose with Spanish words that were often slangy or derogatory, and allowed superficial, albeit energetic, descriptions of shallow thoughtlessness to masquerade as gritty literary style. New Jersey has bred a new literary bad boy… A.” –Entertainment Weekly “Ribald, streetwise, and stunningly moving—a testament, like most of his work, to the yearning, clumsy ways young men come of age.” –Vogue “[An] excellent new collection of stories… [Díaz is] an energetic stylist who expertly moves between high-literary storytelling and fizzy pop, between geek culture and immigrant life, between romance and high drama.” –IndieBound “Taken together, [these stories’] braggadocio softens into something much more vulnerable and devastating. What a treasure. This Is How You Lose Her is a new collection from Junot Diaz ... From the title, it's clear that each of the short stories will end in heartbreak. Easy... a valentine for heartbreak. Welcome back. I hate to filter my response to book based upon others' responses to a book, but after a National Book Award nomination, a Guggenheim, and the almost unseemly vocal adoration of seemingly every major reviewer, one comes to a book with certain expectations. | 314 Minutes Yearning for the one you want. Earlier this year I read Junot Díaz's first and only novel to date, I feel like a literary fraud because I did not like this book. To see what your friends thought of this book, Very relieved that others find this as disappointing as I did. Both were flat and predictable, and misogyny doesn't count as color. There's no such thing as a loyal husband or boyfriend. Unlike other families, Papi tries to place his family trapped inside, making sure they were apprehensive around their environment. This slim volume of nine short stories, about the battlefield of love. I was honestly struck by how emphatically he read his own stories, even more impressed that I remembered his cadences. And searching. Never been in love? Refresh and try again. In a New Jersey laundry room, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. The debilitating cancer of Rafa, … In the section Otravida Otravez, the narrator (Yasmin) is dating a man (Ramon) who is Yunior and Rafa's father. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience, and that “the half-life of love is forever.”. | ISBN 9781594631771 Yunior grew up in the Dominican Republic, but moved to America at a young age. Several of the stories feature Yunior, a young Dominican man--sometimes boy--struggling to live up to male culture while at the same time trying to find what's true to himself--while his brother Rafa is a pure heat-seeking missile of sex. “And that's when I know it's over. His exuberant short story collection, called This Is How You Lose Her, charts the lives of Dominican immigrants for whom the promise of America comes down to a minimum-wage paycheck, an occasional walk to a movie in a mall and the momentary escape of a grappling in bed.” –Maureen Corrigan, NPR “Exhibits the potent blend of literary eloquence and street cred that earned him a Pulitzer Prize… Díaz’s prose is vulgar, brave, and poetic.” –O Magazine “Searing, irresistible new stories… It’s a harsh world Díaz conjures but one filled also with beauty and humor and buoyed by the stubborn resilience of the human spirit.” –People “Junot Díaz has one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic… The strongest tales are those fueled by the verbal energy and magpie language that made Brief Wondrous Life so memorable and that capture Yunior’s efforts to commute between two cultures, Dominican and American, while always remaining an outsider.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times  “These stories… are virtuosic, command performances that mine the deceptive, lovelorn hearts of men with the blend of tenderness, comedy and vulgarity of early Philip Roth. These stories are hard and sad, but in Díaz’s hands they also crackle.” –Library Journal (starred review) “Magnificent… an exuberant rendering of the driving rhythms and juicy Spanglish vocabulary of immigrant speech… sharply observed and morally challenging.” –Kirkus “A beautifully stirring look at ruined relationships and lost love—and a more than worthy follow-up to [Díaz’s] 2007 Pulitzer winner, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” –Bookpage “In This Is How You Lose Her, Díaz writes with subtlety and grace, once again demonstrating his remarkable facility for developing fully-realized and authentic characters with an economical rawness… Díaz skillfully portrays his protagonist so vividly, and with so  much apparent honesty, that Yunior’s voice comes across with an immediacy that never once feels inauthentic.” –California Literary Review “Díaz continues to dazzle with his dynamite, street-bruised wit. This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz is a collection of short stories that follows both Diaz and his character Yunior in their stories about love and loss with different women and their respective family.Throughout the book a central theme is of infidelity, that can be seen in the Sun, Moon, and Stars and most overtly in Alma. By clicking Sign Up, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Yearning for the one you want. Watching parents struggle with their own disappointments. Junot Diaz has always been a favorite author of mine, ever since college when he came to the Latin-American lit class I was taking in '98. It is a wild rhythm that makes more vivid the collection’s heart-busted steadiness.” –Dallas Morning News, Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Is it the Spanglish and slang? At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness--and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses: artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena, who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life, whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own. For this gorgeous new edition, Jaime Hernandez—deemed “one of the twentieth century’s most significant comic creators”—has crafted stunning full-page illustrations, one for each story, that brilliantly capture the love-haunted spirit of the book and of the gutsy women whom irrepressible, irresistible Yunior loves and loses. This second collection of stories follows where his first collection, Drown, left off—tracking the love life of his narrator Yunior. The book is made of nine chapters, each telling a different story, not in chronological orderer. His exuberant short story collection, called This Is How You Lose Her, charts the lives of Dominican immigrants for whom the promise of America comes down to a minimum-wage paycheck, an occasional walk to a movie in a mall and the momentary escape of a grappling in bed.” … Most of the characters in "Lose Her" are flawlessly interchangeable, all women have long sexy dark hair, all men are extrao. Is it the Star Trek metaphors that the characters use to give shape to their emotions? Díaz’s new story collection, “This Is How You Lose Her,” is his first book in five years and only his third book over all. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. He was reading excerpts from the first three of the short stories in this book (The Sun, The Moon, The Stars; Nilda and Alma). “This Is How You Lose Her” is a collection of short stories about lost love, many of which have autobiographical tendencies. Drown (Short Story) This Is How You Lose Her - Chapter 3: "Alma" Summary & Analysis . Being with one you don't want. I hate to filter my response to book based upon others' responses to a book, but after a National Book Award nomination, a Guggenheim, and the almost unseemly vocal adoration of seemingly every major reviewer, one comes to a book with certain expectations. All the men in his life are serial cheaters from his father to his brother to his best friend. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. Even though readers are aware of this from the start, the deterioration of each relationship will hit you. Yet he weds form so ideally to content that instead of blinding us, it becomes the very lens through which we can see the joy and suffering of the signature Díaz subject: what it means to belong to a diaspora, to live out the possibilities and ambiguities of perpetual insider/outsider status.” –The New York Times Book Review “Nobody does scrappy, sassy, twice-the-speed of sound dialogue better than Junot Díaz. More elsewhere. Is it just that Diaz (who, yes, is a fantastic writer of sentences, however slight their freight) has a corner on this particular slice of the market? In This is How You Lose Her, the humor and fun is always tempered by the awareness that there is always something more dangerous lurking. I didn't like Oscar Wao any better. Buy, Sep 11, 2012 And this is how you lose her. There's cheating. On a purely superficial level, I don’t like the style. On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. Most washed over me like a muggy drizzle when you expected cleansing rain, and a few I outright disliked. The unflinching view of the male experience, the immigrant experience, the Latino experience, opinions--correct or not--the less correct usually delivered in Dominican scented Spanish - fly like fur and as with all great writing, Junot Diaz wins it on the sentences, one surprising, perfect laugh out loud brilliant choice after another. Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. And I mean that I agree with the original review lol. This Is How You Lose Her User Review - Lawrence Olszewksi - Book Verdict. Alma has a great Dominican ass and Yunior is a chronic cheater.Alma is a short story in Junot Diaz's book "This is How you Lose Her. Yunior is a louse. Easy... a valentine for heartbreak. by Riverhead Books. 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