One Sunday morning, I was listening to an NPR book podcast in which Junot Diaz was interviewed. I was intrigued by the concept of his book and when I chanced up on it at a Barnes and Noble during my visit to New York in June, I had no hesitation in picking it up. And what a good move that was.
The book is about the members of a Dominican family in the US. Since Dominicans rarely surface in literature, I found the book immediately interesting. However, the core of the novel is universal, and it's about how falling in love with the wrong person adversely affects your near and dear ones. But the book is more about how falling in love with the wrong person at the wrong time can ruin a family for generations. It's about how pain begets pain and abuse gets passed on from generation to generation. Despite the glum thematic summary, I loved the book, and raced through most of it.
