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Average rating3.8
I was going to go on about how Yunior is such a unique and distinctive voice until every review I read talked exactly about how unique and distinctive his voice is.
So instead I will say that I love these veiled, semi-autobiographical memoirs. Maybe talking about oneself frees the author to really flex some narrative muscle. I'm thinking of Michael Ondaatje's Running the Family - still one of my favorites.
Diaz can leave you spinning in the wake of his ever changing narrative voice though. Chapters jump from first to third to tangential characters. But through it all it's a compelling read on the manifestations and muddling of love.
Yunior is a misogynist cheater. Incapable of monogamy and hair rending, teeth gnashing full of remorse when it all becomes uncovered. In less deft hands it would be unreadable but it's rendered so clearly it rings true. You probably know people like this.