Everything is very tricky in the life of Oscar, a kind, but sadly obese romantic and fan of comics and fantasy from the Hispanic ghetto in New Jersey, who dreams of becoming a Dominican J. Tolkien, but above all - to find love, at least some. But his dreams would have remained dreams if not for fuku, the Dominican curse that has haunted Oscar's family for the third generation. Prison, torture, suffering, tragic incidents and unhappy love - such is their fate. Oscar's mother, the divine beauty Beli with an indomitable and violent temper, experienced the full power of fuku. His sister tried to escape from the inevitable, and also in vain. And Oscar, who has been dreaming in vain about the first kiss since adolescence, would have been just another victim of fuku, if one significant summer he had not decided to save his family from a terrible curse and find love, even at the cost of his life.A novel by an American writer of Dominican origin was released in 2007 and won the Pulitzer Prize the same year. Amazing in its complexity and versatility, the novel is almost unanimously compared by critics with Marquez's masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude. A poetic blend of Spanish and American English | magical elements| a new cultural layer that first penetrated literature on such a serious level - comics | history of the Dominican Republic| family saga| coming of age romance | a story full of humour. In a word, in one novel by Juno Diaz there is so much that fits in all the work of another good writer.