Tue, Oct 06
|Huntsville-Madison County Public Library
We the Readers: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Celebrate the 250th anniversary of The Declaration of Independence this year at the Downtown Huntsville Public Library with a search for The Great American Novel.
Time & Location
Oct 06, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Huntsville-Madison County Public Library, 915 Monroe St SW, Huntsville, AL 35801, USA
About the Event
Celebrate the 250th anniversary of The Declaration of Independence this year at the Downtown Huntsville Public Library with a search for The Great American Novel.
This month we are reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, published 2007.
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.