Adult

Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, who dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien --- and, most of all, of finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Because the fukú --- a curse that has haunted his family for generations --- seems to have followed them from Santo Domingo to the USA.

In his gripping memoir, THE LOST: A Search for Six of Six Million, Daniel Mendelsohn seeks to discover more about the lives, and deaths at the hands of the Nazis, of his great uncle Shmiel Jäger, his wife Ester and their four daughters: Lorka, Frydka, Ruchele and Bronia.