02104cam a2200289Ii 4500001001000000003000700010005001700017008004100034020001800075020001500093040004900108050002600157100002600183245004600209250006100255264004100316300002300357336002600380337002800406338002700434505015900461520020900620520091400829650003401743650001301777655002401790857792481US-DLC20161215084028.0130910s2013    nyu           000 1 eng d  a9781594631771  z1594631778  aYKCbengcYKCdYDXCPdBDXdOCLCFdCGPdOCLCQ 4aPS3554.I259bT48 20131 aDíaz, Junot,d1968-10aThis is how you lose her /cJunot Díaz.  aFirst Riverhead trade paperback edition: September 2013. 1aNew York :bRiverhead Books,c[2013]  a217 pages ;c22 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier0 aThe sun, the moon, the stars -- Nilda -- Alma -- Otravida, Otravez -- Flaca -- The pura principle -- Invierno -- Miss Lora -- The cheater's guide to love.  aThis is a collection of stories that explores the power of love in all its forms, obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.  aOn a beach in Santo Domingo, 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 live is forever." 0aDominican AmericansvFiction. 0aFiction. 02localaPrint books.