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A review by nooneyouknow
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
4.0
"The half-life of love is forever."
Man, can Junot Diaz write. I would have gone with 3.5 stars until the last story in the book just crushed me. A collection of stories about guys who get around a lot, who don't necessarily see it as cheating, who are doing what they think is expected of them, but who are still human enough (when they show any symptoms of self-awareness) to want something different. The stories told from the female POV didn't ring as true to me as the men's stories. But Diaz still manages to drop his readers straight into his characters' world, just as it is. Good stuff.
Man, can Junot Diaz write. I would have gone with 3.5 stars until the last story in the book just crushed me. A collection of stories about guys who get around a lot, who don't necessarily see it as cheating, who are doing what they think is expected of them, but who are still human enough (when they show any symptoms of self-awareness) to want something different. The stories told from the female POV didn't ring as true to me as the men's stories. But Diaz still manages to drop his readers straight into his characters' world, just as it is. Good stuff.