An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted for the 2019
National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the
2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel
Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Winner of the 2019 New England Book Award for Fiction! 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
universal...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 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. Named a
Best Book of the Year by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library
Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good
Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library,
Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment
Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones,
Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine and more!
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Thu, 29 Sep 2022 | Review
by: Thamsanqa M.
Areived in excellent condition. Can't wait to rwad the hard copy after reading and loving the ebook
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