Now Díaz turns his remarkable talent to the haunting, impossible power of love - obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, a woman does her lovers 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,...

Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness.

"As©Ư es como la pierdes es un libro sobre mujeres que quitan el sentido, sobre el amor y el ardor, sobre la traici©đn, porque a veces traicionamos lo que m©Łs queremos, y tambi©♭n es un libro sobre el suplicio que pasamos despu©♭s--los ruegos, las l©Łgrimas, la sensaci©đn de estar atravesado un campo de minas--para intentar recuperar lo que perdimos, aquello que cre©Ưamos que no quer©Ưamos, que no nos importaba. Estos cuentos...

"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland . . . and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--