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"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity"--
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
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- Released
- 2020
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ocean Vuong
- Publisher
- Penguin LCC US
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 052550771X
- ISBN13
- 9780525507710
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Love, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Friendship, USA, Military Fiction, Wars, LGBTQ+, American Literature, Literary Fiction, Memories, Coming Of Age, Drugs, Letters, Homosexuality, Family secrets, Migration, Immigration, Vietnam, Mothers and Sons, Vietnamese Literature, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- First published
- 2019
- Original title
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- "Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity"--