On earth we're briefly gorgeous av Ocean Vuong

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<b>The instant <i>New York Times </i>Bestseller <b>• Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction</b><br><br><b>“A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universa</b>l…N<b>ot so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” —Ron Charles, <i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br>Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling</b><br><br><i>On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous</i> 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