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On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel

On Earth we are briefly gorgeous (other title)
Vuong, Ocean 1988- (author.).

Summary: "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"--

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  • ISBN: 0525562028
  • ISBN: 9780525562023
  • Physical Description: 246 pages ; 22 cm
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  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2019.

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Genre: Novels.
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