You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda ... You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more.
In Yunior, a Dominican-American writer and Harvard professor, Junot Díaz has created an irresistibly erratic protagonist, who sweeps you up in the poetic energy of his speech as he rehearses a broad repertoire of bad behaviour.
Originally the climactic tale in the chain-linked This is How You Lose Her, 'The Cheater's Guide to Love' is a superb standalone song of decadence and experience.
Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.***
Your girl catches you cheating. YEAR O
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(@FaberBooks, 15 October 2019, ebook, 35 pages, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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I really enjoyed The Cheater's Guide to Love. The story uses a second-person narrator which is unusual, almost as if they are addressing the reader directly. I really liked the tone this created. The story is split into sections and each one has the hapless narrator reel of a list of romantic indiscretions, then apologise and seemingly shrug their shoulders and say 'oh well, I'm only human'. The story is quite satirical. It's well written and engaging.
