" That story, "Nilda," is one of several stories by this author narrated by a fatherless New Jersey teenager, several of which were collected in Drown.
One of this author's short stories ends with the narrator saying of the title character, "A couple of years later I went away to college and I didn't know where the fuck she went." That story, "Nilda," is one of several stories by this author narrated by a fatherless New Jersey teenager, several of which were collected in Drown. One section of his most famous work is named after the three heartbreaks of the protagonist's mother, Belicia Cabral. In that novel, the protagonist's family suffers from the fuku curse and grapples with its experiences under Rafael Trujillo's regime. For 10 points, name this author who is best known for about an overweight, fantasy-obsessed Dominican-American, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
One of this author's short stories ends with the narrator saying of the title character, "A couple of years later I went away to college
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