The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The f-ing thing never arrived...
sigh

It wasn't what I thought it would be.
The narration begins in Oscar's childhood, but the story itself starts back in the 50s, or so, with Oscar's grandfather being imprisoned and his family broken, and assumably cursed, to never be able to succeed in love.
Only the youngest daughter survives and is rescued by her aunt, who raises her. She has her own unhappy love story with a “gangster” when she was 15-16, which ended with her being sent to New York to keep her safe.
We follow Oscar and his sister, Lola.
Some parts are narrated by Lola's boyfriend Yunior.