On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel / Ocean Vuong.

New York : Penguin Press, 2019.

©2019

246 pages ; 22 cm

"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.

Online version: Vuong, Ocean, 1988- author. On earth we're briefly gorgeous New York : Penguin Press, 2019

Fiction

English

9780525562023 (hardcover)
0525562028 (hardcover)
9780525562030 (electronic book)

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