Over on my travel writing blog, I reviewed The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao a couple of months ago. It’s a first novel by Junot Díaz that takes place mostly in the Dominican Republic, and was something my friend Katrina passed on to me because it was hyped up as being a great novel – one of my favourite novelists, Hanif Kureishi, had really said good things about it. Despite that, Katrina told me it wasn’t that great, but thought it might be interesting for me to look at …