A Brief Wonderous Review of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

If you haven't heard of this book yet, you need to get on this stuff NOW. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is touching, tragic, and, most importantly, laugh-out-loud nerdy. Oscar De Leon, aka Oscar Wao (a bastardization of Oscar Wilde) is a and I quote, "fat nerd from the ghettos." As if a book about such an apparent anomaly of a human stereotype could not be good? Pffttt, throw in a super feminist sister, a super hot mama, boyish pheromones, otaku-ness, a prostitute-lover, Star Trek references, and a fast-talking narrator that isn't afraid to ask how does a boy like Oscar end up so fucked up and we get tears, hilarity, and more than a little bit of humanity. =)