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FICTION: "This is How You Lose Her," by Junot Diaz.

Article by: JIM CARMIN , Special to the Star Tribune
Updated: September 8, 2012 - 9:38 PM

Nine short stories on sex, love and life that blur fiction and autobiography and hit close to home.

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ceciliavSep. 12, 12 5:44 PM

This book is brilliant and terrible. Brilliant in how the glitz & glam of his language, all its pop & edginess fizz and bubble. Terrible in how that rhythm hide the insipidness of its message, which is that men are trapped in masculinity so much that it might take them 40 years and 100s of women to understand how they don't respect women. We are meant to feel sympathy for Yunior, to feel compelled by his smooth-tongued distingué narrative prowess, but its a prowess he rubs all over the ladies, and in doing so damages and erases them. This is solipsism du jour and in this case it's also approbation, no matter how much Diaz wants to torque the conversation to be one about love. This is not a book about love, nor is it a book about depth. This is a book about the cruelty of storms.