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This is how you lose her

A collection of stories, by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, that lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Díaz, Junot, 1968-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Riverhead Books, c2012.
Subjects:	Interpersonal relations > Fiction. Dominican Americans > New Jersey > Fiction. Love stories > New Jersey. Short stories, American.
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Summary:	A collection of stories, by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, that lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts.
Physical Description:	213 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	9781594487361 1594487367
Author Notes:	Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and was raised in New Jersey. His fiction has appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, African Voices, and Best American Short Stories. He wrote the story collection Drown and the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His debut picture book is entitled Islandborn, published June 2018. He is a professor of creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Bowker Author Biography)