On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel /
Vuong, Ocean
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel / Ocean Vuong. - New York : Penguin Press, 2019. - 242 pages ;
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.
9780525562047
Mothers and sons--Fiction
Discrimination--Fiction
FIC V86 2019
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel / Ocean Vuong. - New York : Penguin Press, 2019. - 242 pages ;
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.
9780525562047
Mothers and sons--Fiction
Discrimination--Fiction
FIC V86 2019