This Is How You Lose Her

Finalistforthe2012NationalBookAwardATimeandPeopleTop10Bookof2012Finalistforthe2012StoryPrizeChosenasanotableorbestbookoftheyearbyTheNewYorkTimes,EntertainmentWeekly,TheLATimes,Newsday,Barnes&Noble,Amazon,theiTunesbookstore,andmanymore..."Electrifying."–TheNewYorkTimesBookReview“ExhibitsthepotentblendofliteraryeloquenceandstreetcredthatearnedhimaPulitzerPrize…Díaz’sproseisvulgar,brave,andpoetic.”–OMagazineFromtheaward-winningauthor,astunningcollectionthatcelebratesthehaunting,impossiblepoweroflove.OnabeachintheDominicanRepublic,adoomedrelationshipflounders.InaNewJerseylaundryroom,awomandoesherlover’swashingandthinksabouthiswife.InBoston,amanbuyshislovechild,hisonlyson,afirstbaseballbatandglove.Attheheartofthesestoriesistheirrepressible,irresistibleYunior,ayounghardheadwhoselongingforloveisequaledonlybyhisrecklessness--andbytheextraordinarywomenhelovesandloses.Inprosethatisendlesslyenergetic,inventive,tender,andfunny,thesestorieslaybaretheinfinitelongingandinevitableweaknessofthehumanheart.Theyremindusthatpassionalwaystriumphsoverexperience,andthat“thehalf-lifeofloveisforever.”