Saturday Rumpus Essay: What Counts
He said: I love you, son, but I don’t have to like you.
He asked: Do you love me?
He said: I love you, son, but I don’t have to like you.
He asked: Do you love me?
I read Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao a year ago, when a lot of people read it – when I was seeing it in airports. I’m choosing to write about it now because, even though it’s been a year, it’s still the last book I loved.