Riverhead Books</br></br>Product Description</br></br>Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot D?azs first book <i>Drown</i> established him as a major new writer with the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet (<i>Newsweek</i>). His first novel <i>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</i> was named #1 Fiction Book of the Year by <i>Time</i> magazine and spent more than 100 weeks on the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller list establishing itself  with more than a million copies in print  as a modern classic. In addition to the Pulitzer D?az has won a host of major awards and prizes including the National Book Critics Circle Award the PEN/Malamud Award the PEN/O. Henry Prize the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Award.<p></p><p>Now D?az turns his remarkable talent to the haunting impossible power of love  obsessive love illicit love fading love maternal love. On a beach in the Dominican Republic a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey a woman does her lovers washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston?? a man buys his love child?? his only son?? a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible?? irresistible Yunior?? a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness--and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses: artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena?? who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life?? whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own. In prose that is endlessly energetic?? inventive?? tender?? and funny?? the stories in the <i>New York Times</i>-Bestselling?<i>This Is How You Lose He"re the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience?? and that ??the half-life of love is forever.??</p></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br><b>Amazon Best Books of the Month?? September 2012:</b> <i>This Is How You Lose Her</i> features nine stories by Junot Diaz?? who won the Pulitze