This is the first I’m hearing about Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao, but I’m enchanted with it’s existence — or at least with its brief plot summary. I’m always glad when more nerds, even fictional ones, get their due. The book about a nerdobsessed with sci-fi and fantasy who lives in the ghetto has won for fiction in the National Book Critics Circle Awards, and I’m going to order it on Amazon right now.
This is the first I’m hearing about Junot Diaz’s 
