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This was my first foray into Junot Diaz and it was as painful as the title suggests. It's also pretty self referential which also stings.

Junior's relationships with the women in his life is a giant billboard for how people get trapped in the grooves and struggle to change in spite of their desire to do so. There's also an element of the external witness who sees Yunior's train coming vs. the internal Yunior who wanders along looking only at the tracks. He's always surprised each time he gets hit.

I really loved reading this book. There are some really funny laugh out loud moments and quite a lot of times I was sucking air through my teeth hoping for a different outcome and knowing it wouldn't change.

The book is also beautifully crafted with sharp, sharp descriptive and beautiful images of the world Yunior inhabits. I especially loved the descriptions of the women in Yuniors' life but all of the other characters, in particular his brother, are alive with depth.

I struggled with the Spanish along the way and ended up using google translate on my phone to read my iPad which worked well. Understanding the Spanish added a lot so I recommend taking the time to do that.

I'm looking forward to reading more Junot Diaz. Thank you as always to my friend for the recommendation. <3


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This Is How You Lose Her Junot Díaz 9781594487361 Books Reviews

I had heard all about this author and this was the first book of his that I read. I was caught off guard at first by how 'colloquial' the language was. But because of that, the story was very real, raw, sincere, touching. Throughout the book I was left wondering what portion of the book was autobiography, memoir, fiction, or fiction loosely based on reality. I still don't know the answer, but I haven't dug too much to find out because in some ways I think it is better to be left debating with myself regarding where I think it falls along the spectrum. I would definitely recommend the book to others as an example of modern high quality literature rooted outside of the 'mainstream' (read whitewashed) literary circles.
This book has a wrap around which explicates the three short stories in the center. Diaz’s writing style remains enticingly conversational. You feel like you are listening to someone’s personal story, but as a reader it is not a character you really want to embody. His ‘love map’ has been seriously screwed up because of the examples his father and brother have demonstrated with the women in their lives. In fact, no man the main character interacts with has a healthy, loving, faithful relationship with any woman in their lives. Without spoiling the plot, as the wrap around plot with the main characters continues the chronological plot, Yunior’s physical body begins breaking down after he destroys his relationship with his fiancé. In the end, the half life of love is infinite.
This is an easy read, but I couldn’t help but wonder, even though this book was written well before the ‘me too’ movement, how these seemingly semi-autobiographical characters, reflect on the allegations leveled at Diaz by female students and interns. I enjoy the voice. I don’t like the way men from the Dominican Republic are all portrayed as misogynistic users of women.
    This novel was AMAZING!! The author did a great job of creating Yunior as a very likeable, but troubled character. Through writing techniques, such as changing the point of view each chapter, readers are able to understand each character personally and also how each character views one another. For me, however, while most of the time I liked the switches in perspective, it a lot of the time wasn’t clear who was speaking until the end of the chapter. I think the author should have clarified when the speaker changed and to who it changed to, then it wouldn’t have caused as much confusion for me. He might have been doing that on purpose, so you had to figure out who was talking and their relations to the other characters, but I personally did not know who was speaking in many of the chapters. The ongoing conflict in the book that Yunior, his brother, and his dad having relationship and commitment issues helps to shape the theme that relationships require hard work and more than just love in order to be successful. This is very well exhibited in the last chapter, “The Cheater’s Guide to Love,” when Yunior is head over heels for a girl and then cheats on her anyways despite his love for her. The author also uses an interesting diction choice of mixing of spanish and english throughout the book to portray the importance of background, culture, and the immense role that it plays in the characters lives. Having a spanish to english dictionary nearby is definitely a must when reading because the spanish words pop up during significant moments in the book, which again emphasizes the thematic topic of cultural importance. A symbol that is brought up throughout the book is snow. Snow is mostly mentioned when Yunior is a young boy and is wanting to go play in the snow, and his dad won’t let him. I believe the repetition of snow throughout the novel is to represent wanting something they can’t have. Wanting things the characters don’t have and not being content with what they do have is another major theme. Although this theme is mostly related to relationships and heartbreak, it is also portrayed when talking about the hardships, but also the benefits of moving to the United States. Diaz also uses a very unique syntax technique of not putting in any quotation marks. I loved this so much when I was reading because at times I wasn’t sure whether the characters were speaking out loud or if it was the thoughts in their head. I think this gave me a chance as a reader to interpret some actions and made me wonder and think about what was happening much more. Overall, it was an amazing book with a riveting plot and great, compelling descriptive language that made it impossible to put down.
This was my first foray into Junot Diaz and it was as painful as the title suggests. It's also pretty self referential which also stings.

Junior's relationships with the women in his life is a giant billboard for how people get trapped in the grooves and struggle to change in spite of their desire to do so. There's also an element of the external witness who sees Yunior's train coming vs. the internal Yunior who wanders along looking only at the tracks. He's always surprised each time he gets hit.

I really loved reading this book. There are some really funny laugh out loud moments and quite a lot of times I was sucking air through my teeth hoping for a different outcome and knowing it wouldn't change.

The book is also beautifully crafted with sharp, sharp descriptive and beautiful images of the world Yunior inhabits. I especially loved the descriptions of the women in Yuniors' life but all of the other characters, in particular his brother, are alive with depth.

I struggled with the Spanish along the way and ended up using google translate on my phone to read my iPad which worked well. Understanding the Spanish added a lot so I recommend taking the time to do that.

I'm looking forward to reading more Junot Diaz. Thank you as always to my friend for the recommendation. <3