This Is How You Lose Her

On the beach of the Dominican Republic, the relationship that is destined to fail is struggling. In a laundry room at a hospital in New Jersey, a woman wash her girlfriend to her girlfriend and asked him to think about his wife. In Boston, men bought their beloved, the only son, the first baseball bat and gloves. The heart of these stories is unstoppable, irresistible Yunior, young hard head, enthusiastic ... Read more

"This is the way you lose her" is a list of failed love events, multilingual violence, dissatisfied labor force and marginal children. It occurs between the Dominican Republic and the East Coast, between Spanish and English, a floating world between novels and short stories. After many confusion and struggle, the book ends at the moment of inspiration: after years of blockade, the narrator starts writing the book he believes (using the title of the last story) "To love a liar Guide ". This book is expected to be exactly the same as "How did you lose her?" Therefore, the process of Díaz will be the product itself

This is how you lost her. It is the second short story of Juno Diaz. It is the third work of the 1996 short novel collection "Shui Shui" and the 2007 novel "Oscar Wo's Short and Wonderful Life". The series consists of nine interrelated short stories. This story was included in America's best short story in 2000. Like "Principles of Pula", the hero of "Nilda" is the girlfriend of Unia's brother Rafa. Relationship between Nilda and Yunior, mainly because her drunken mother and Yunior chat with each other and wait for Rafa to go home, in order to prevent building friendship with her, Yunior and Rafa 's house It is based on staying at night. Nilda also dreams of opening a group home for the runaway kids.