The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao
One weird book. Oscar is weird. His family is weird. They have this weird fuku curse that follows them everywhere they go, placing insurmountable obstacles in their path. Weird or not, I learned a lot about Dominican-American history and about the will to survive.
