This author wrote a story about a nuclear apocalypse-obsessed teenager that has an affair with a muscular female teacher while dating Paloma.
In a story by this author, the narrator's father forbids him from eating at his aunt's party to stop him from vomiting in their Volkswagen. This author wrote a story about a nuclear apocalypse-obsessed teenager that has an affair with a muscular female teacher while dating Paloma. In a novel by this author, two cops beat the protagonist's mother hard enough to kill her unborn fetus, leaving her in a canefield where she is rescued by a golden mongoose. Lola's brother tries to (*) lose his virginity at Rutgers in that novel by this author, in which his recurring narrator Yunior describes the fukú curse afflicting an overweight sci-fi fanatic as a legacy of the Trujillo regime. For 10 points, name this Dominican-American author of Drown, This Is How You Lose Her and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
In a story by this author, the narrator's father forbids him from eating at his aunt's party to stop him from vomiting in their Volkswagen.
Junot Díaz