Wao!

The NY Times raves about author Junot Diaz's latest work, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead), callling it "a wondrous, not-so-brief first novel that is so original it can only be described as Mario Vargas Llosa meets Star Trek meets David Foster Wallace meets Kanye West. It is funny, street-smart and keenly observed...extraordinarily vibrant ...fueled by adrenaline-powered prose..." Here's more.