#40 in Short stories
This Is How You Lose Her
- 240
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list
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Our view
“This Is How You Lose Her” is a collection of nine linked stories that makes a deeply flawed narrator impossible to dismiss. Through Yunior, Díaz draws the lives of Dominican immigrants in the United States closely and with empathy, in a world that is harsh yet familiar. Some readers stress that its saddest pages concern families split by migration rather than the break-ups of the title.
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About the book
This Is How You Lose Her is the second collection of short stories by Junot Díaz. It is the third of Díaz's books to feature his recurring protagonist Yunior, following his 1996 short story collection, Drown and his 2007 novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The collection is composed of nine interlinked short stories.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 210 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 59% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Short stories average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.7 | 11 | 5% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 47 | 22% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 152 | 72% |
Frequently asked
How long is This Is How You Lose Her?
It has 240 pages — shorter than 53% of the ranked books in Short stories.
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