Finalist for the 2012 Country wide Book Award

A Time and People Top ten 10 Reserve of 2012

Finalist for the 2012 Tale Prize

Chosen being a notable or very best book of the entire year by The New York Instances, Entertainment Regular, The LA Instances, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and so many more…

‘Electrifying.’ -The NY Times Publication Review

“Displays the potent blend of literary eloquence and street cred that earned him a Pulitzer concerning this Is definitely How You Lose Her Award… Díaz’s prose is usually vulgar, brave, and poetic.” -O Publication

In the award-winning author, a sensational collection that celebrates the haunting, impossible power of love.

On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In a New Jersey laundry room, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a guy buys his love child, his only son, an initial baseball bat and glove. In the centre of these stories may be the irrepressible, amazing Yunior, a hardhead whose longing for love can be equaled just by his recklessness–and from the extraordinary females he loves and loses.

In prose that’s endlessly full of energy, inventive, sensitive, and funny, these stories lay uncovered the infinite longing and unavoidable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion generally triumphs over experience, which “the half-life of like is permanently.”