And Then They Get Together To Ignore Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"...a wondrous, not-so-brief first novel that is so original it can only be described as Mario Vargas Llosa meets Star Trek meets David Foster Wallace meets Kanye West."

- Michiko Kakutani raves about Junot Diaz's Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. (She also uses the word "galvanic".)