On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel / Ocean Vuong.
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780525562023 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 246 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
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Subject: | Vietnamese Americans > Fiction. Mothers and sons > Fiction. |
Genre: | Bildungsromans. Domestic fiction. |
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