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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. 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. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling “A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…N ot so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” -Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction.

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. 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. 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.

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. On Earth We�re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Poet Ocean Vuong�s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe,, Huffington Post, The A.V. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong € 20.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 7-10 working days.