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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
A Novel
by Ocean Vuong
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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. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.
With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.
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Fiction, coming of age, Mothers and sons, fiction, Fiction, cultural heritage, LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2019-06-23, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Vietnamese Americans, Fiction, Adult child abuse victims, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Children of prostitutes, Schizophrenics, Family relationships, Mothers and sons, Discrimination, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Coming of Age, Mother-son relationship, Literature, FICTION / GeneralShowing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
2020, Penguin Random House
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