
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
I’ve started reading this and it’s pretty damn good, and funny, and clever. I guess that explains the Pulitzer.
I could barely put this book down. Now I want to give it some time to breathe, and then reread it. Díaz’s writing is aware, self-effacing, and unapologetic. The story is at once simple - Oscar’s life, laid bare - and yet a complex, but never confusing, tangle of lives, events, people. A brilliant book in every way.