The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
It bounces around the stories of three members of a Dominican-American family and brings these stories together along with the acrimonious reality of the thirty year reign of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic (1930-1961) – a man who in 1937, ordered the massacre of over 20,000 Haitians and who also had a fetish for renaming monuments and towns with his name.
