This Is How You Lose Her

Junot Diaz's This Is How You Lose Her was entertaining, occasionally quite funny, and at times, moving. But his style is still the same and grows a little monotonous. Sprinklings of Spanish phrases common to Dominican-American Spanish in an Ebonics-inflected prose is unique to Diaz, but it does seem to get old after a while...Nevertheless, I enjoyed the short stories and continue to think very highly of Diaz's writing capabilities, although I definitely prefer his novels. Thus, I wait eagerly for his next novel, an excerpt of which was published in The New Yorker, "Monstro." However, This Is How You Lose Her does add more to our knowledge of Yunior, whose past we have not learned more about since Drown.