The release date for the English version of 'This Is How You Lose Her' by
Junot Díaz is Sep 2012. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A failing romance implodes on a Dominican Republic beach. A lady washes her lover's clothes in a hot hospital laundry room in New Jersey while she considers his wife. A guy in Boston purchases his first baseball bat and glove for his only kid out of love. The protagonist of these tales is the incomparable, irresistible Yunior, a young hard-headed man whose desire for love is matched only by his recklessness. He also falls in love with and loses remarkable women, including the ageing Miss Lora, the artistic Alma, Magdalena, who believes all Dominican men are unfaithful, and the love of his life, whose heartbreak eventually becomes his own.
The tales in This Is How You Lose Her expose the limitless yearning and inescapable frailty of the human heart via writing that is infinitely lively, imaginative, compassionate, and humorous. They serve as a reminder that "the half-life of love is forever" and that passion always wins out over experience.