This Is How You Lose Her

Finalist for the 2012 National Book Award

A Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012
Finalist for the 2012 Story Prize
Chosen as a notable or best book of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and many more...

Electrifying. -The New York Times Book Review

"Exhibits the potent blend of literary eloquence and street cred that earned him a Pulitzer Prize... D az's prose is vulgar, brave, and poetic." -O Magazine

From the award-winning author, a stunning 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 man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness--and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses.

In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, these stories lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience, and that "the half-life of love is forever."

Author: Junot Díaz
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 09/11/2012
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781594487361


Award: National Book Awards - Finalist
Award: Story Prize - Finalist
Award: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence - Finalist
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner
Award: Story Prize - Finalist
Award: New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2012 pg. 58
Publishers Weekly 06/18/2012 pg. 31
Library Journal 07/01/2012 pg. 80
Booklist 07/01/2012 pg. 24
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2012
Entertainment Weekly 09/14/2012 pg. 144
People Weekly 09/24/2012 pg. 65
New York Times Book Review 09/30/2012 pg. 26
New York Times Book Review 09/23/2012 pg. 1
Shelf Awareness 09/14/2012
New York Review of Books 11/08/2012 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/05/2012 pg. 25
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2012 pg. 13
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/02/2012 pg. 25
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 01/01/0001 pg. 6
People Weekly 12/31/2012 pg. 47
Entertainment Weekly 12/28/2012 pg. 104
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2013 pg. 9
Library Journal 10/01/2014 pg. 45

About the Author
Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.