Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Name: Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Author: Vuong, Ocean
ISBN: 9781787331501

by Vuong, Ocean

ISBN: 9781787331501

Published: 2019-06-04

Families

**THE SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Brilliant, heart-breaking, 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 epicentre 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 the American moment, immersed as it is in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much...

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