This book is really a whole lot of short stories about Yunior, a Dominican migrant to the US.  They are mostly about his affairs with different women but also about migration and his family, particularly his brother who dies of cancer.  It is a very well written book, honest, descriptive. pretty funny while dealing with the tragedies of life and certainly rings true.  I liked it.  However, I did struggle to like any of the characters which for me makes it hard to really love a book and there were some pretty over the top, degrading descriptions of women and sex that I found a little hard to swallow.