This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Daz
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Junot Daz
Tags: General Fiction, Short Story, Adults, Contemporary
Junot Daz burst into the literary world with Drown, a collection of indelible stories that revealed a major new writer with the eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet (Newsweek). His eagerly awaited first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, arrived like a thunderclap, topping best-of-the-year lists and winning a host of major awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. Now Daz turns his prodigious talent to the haunting, impossible power of love., The stories in This Is How You Lose Her, by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts. They capture the heat of new passion, the recklessness with which we betray what we most treasure, and the torture we go through - the begging, the crawling over glass, the crying - to try to mend what weve broken beyond repair. They recall the echoes that intimacy leaves behind, even where we thought we did not care. They teach us the catechism of affect
