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Harvard Book Store and Boston Review welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning author JUNOT DÍAZ for a reading of his new collection of stories, This Is How You Lose Her.
After the wildly successful and much-lauded Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Díaz turns his talent to the haunting, impossible power of love: obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, 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: artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena, who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life, whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own.
In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, the stories in This Is How You Lose Her 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.”
Win front row seats! Pre-order This Is How You Lose Her, a Harvard Book Store Buzz List selection, by its scheduled release date (September 11) to receive a 20% discount and a chance to win 2 front-row seats at our September 26 event. Our winner will be notified on September 11. Pre-payment is required for discount and contest entry.
(Note: If you purchase tickets and then win, you can present up to two tickets for a refund. Refund instructions will be included in your notification. However, if you don’t win, our usual policy that tickets are non-returnable will apply.)
Junot Diaz
*Sold Out* visit Harvard.com for more information | No Brattle Passes
Harvard Book Store and Boston Review welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning author JUNOT DÍAZ for a reading of his new collection of stories, This Is How You Lose Her.
After the wildly successful and much-lauded Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Díaz turns his talent to the haunting, impossible power of love: obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, 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: artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena, who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life, whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own.
In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, the stories in This Is How You Lose Her 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.”
Win front row seats! Pre-order This Is How You Lose Her, a Harvard Book Store Buzz List selection, by its scheduled release date (September 11) to receive a 20% discount and a chance to win 2 front-row seats at our September 26 event. Our winner will be notified on September 11. Pre-payment is required for discount and contest entry.
(Note: If you purchase tickets and then win, you can present up to two tickets for a refund. Refund instructions will be included in your notification. However, if you don’t win, our usual policy that tickets are non-returnable will apply.)