The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoThings have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku the ancient curse that has haunted his family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, violent accidents, and, above all, ill starred love. With dazzling