284 reviews On an icy winter weekend, seven friends celebrate New Years Eve at Stoneborough, a grand manor in the English countryside.He believes he is afflicted by a Fukú – a family curse that all Dominicans fear.Īs the narrative pans back a generation to recount the tale of his svelte, amply-bosomed mother, Belicia, in her Caribbean homeland, we begin to suspect he has a point. The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse 3.17 Fellow Dominicans regard him as an embarrassment. He sports his nerdiness ‘like a Jedi wore his light saber’, turning to fantasy an outlet as much for his frustrated romantic desires as for his innate dorkishness. Oscar (the nickname Wao comes later) is ten when we first encounter him, a chubby, speccy and miserable resident of New Jersey's Hispanic ghetto. Amid a slew of first novels that feel over-familiar from their first sentence, I cannot tell you how refreshing this is. Its special powers are many, but its appeal is simple: it brings to vibrant life frames of experience that most readers will not have previously given much thought to. The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse: 9780345507426 : Books On an icy winter weekend, seven friends celebrate New Year’s Eve at Stoneborough, a grand manor in the English countryside. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is the first novel by Dominican-born New Yorker Junot Díaz, a prolific short-story writer.
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