Books by author: Junot Diaz

Based on all the praise this book received, I expected to like it a lot, but it was a chore to finish. The text is littered with Spanish phrases that are never explained (and are often impossible to figure out based on the context), making this somewhat inaccessible to a non-Spanish-speaker like myself. I fared better with the copious sci-fi references, but they weren't enough to rescue this book for me.