Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Things 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 but keeps falling hopelessly in love. Meanwhille his punk sister Lola wants to run away, and his enduring mother Beli can't seem to let either of them go.