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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 (from publishers website).
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- Title On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- Author Ocean Vuong
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Press
- Date 2019-06-04
- ISBN 9780525562023 / 0525562028
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.9 in (21.59 x 14.73 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress subjects Mothers and sons, Bildungsromans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018046290
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.6
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Citations
- Booklist, 04/15/2019, Page 21
- Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2019, Page 45
- Library Journal, 03/01/2019, Page 120
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 01/01/2019, Page 53
- Publishers Weekly, 04/01/2019, Page 0
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