Belicia is an adolescent living with her father’s cousin, La Inca. According to the narrator, Oscar, like the rest of his family, is a victim of fukú, a Caribbean curse unleashed on Hispaniola with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492.Īfter introducing Oscar, the narrative flashes back to the Dominican Republic in the late 1950s during the waning days of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina’s oppressive regime. His one source of emotional support is his older sister, Lola.
His father abandoned the family when Oscar was a baby, and his cancer-stricken mother, Belicia, is mystified by him. Although Oscar obsesses over women, he is sorely lacking in confidence and thus hasn’t kissed a girl since he was seven years old. Unlike most of his Dominican peers, Oscar loves The Lord of the Rings, Dungeons & Dragons, and other staples of 20th-century nerd culture. In Part 1, the narrator introduces readers to Oscar de León, an overweight Dominican American high schooler living in Paterson, New Jersey, in the late 1980s.
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