On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

✍ Scribed by Ocean Vuong

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 139 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0525562028

✦ Synopsis

Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture , Entertainment Weekly , Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe , Oprah.com,Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more.
"A lyrical work of self-discovery that's shockingly intimate and insistently universa l...Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post**
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and 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 epicenter is rooted in Vietnam -- and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never...