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{{quote|"Of what import are brief, nameless lives... to '''[[Planet Eater|Galactus]]'''??"|[[Stan Lee]] and [[Jack Kirby]], ''[[Fantastic Four]]'', (Vol. I, No. 49, April 1966)}}

 

 

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a 2007 novel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Junot Díaz. The story is centered around the character Oscar de León, a [[One of Us|consummate scifi and fantasy geek]] with horrendous luck with women who wants to be the Dominican [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]. The story is told through his former roommate at Rutgers, Yunior, who comes off as a [[Jerkass|bit dickish]] when he is first introduced into the story, but [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|grows into a better person]] by the time he is writing the novel. Yunior tells the story of Oscar's life (and [[Oh, and X Dies|death]]) by tracing Oscar's story through his sister Lola, his mother Hypatá Belicia Cabral (or Beli for short), and his grandfather Abelard Cabral's own tragic tales.