It took me quite some time to finally read this, picking it up after I read Diaz's short story collection "This is How You Lose Her," not realizing the narrator for both is the character Yunior. A truly cativating novel from beginning to end -- the writing and descriptions, the characters, the history, and the Latino point-of-view, all great. A new favorte, that stayed with me some time after finishing (perhaps a reason I'm writing this review two months later...)