This author's characters include a man who calls his mother's prayer group "The Four Horsefaces of the Apocalypse" anda girl who every morning writes the phrase "tarde venientibus ossa," or "to the latecomers are leftft the bones."
This author's characters include a man who calls his mother's prayer group "The Four Horsefaces of the Apocalypse" anda girl who every morning writes the phrase "tarde venientibus ossa," or "to the latecomers are leftft the bones." In one of hisstories, the protagonist is so disgusted by his father's new Volkswagen van that he vomits out of the passenger seat window.This author wrote a story about the hospital laundry worker Yasmin, who intercepts the letters sent to her married lover byhis wife. He began his fiÂrst collection with a story about a boy whose face has been eaten by a pig, titled "Ysrael." This authorincluded the story of "Poor Abelard," the father of the cancer-stricken Belicia Cabral, in a novel that begins by explaining thezafa, a counterspell to the fuku curse. He continued the story of the character Yunior from that novel in his collections This isHow You Lose Her and Drown. For 10 points, name this Dominican-born author who wrote about a nerd's quest to lose hisvirginity in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
This author's characters include a man who calls his mother's prayer group "The Four Horsefaces of the Apocalypse" anda girl who every morning writes the phrase "tarde venientibus ossa," or "to the latecomers are leftft the bones."
Junot Diaz