On earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel / Ocean Vuong.
"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525562023 (hc)
- Physical Description: 246 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
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Subject: | Vietnamese Americans > Fiction. Mothers and sons > Fiction. Families. > Fiction. |
Genre: | Bildungsromans. |
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- 22 of 29 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 0 of 1 copy available at Greenwood Public Library.
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- 1 current hold with 29 total copies.
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Greenwood Public Library | FIC VUO (Text) | 35141000234162 | Adult Fiction | Not holdable | Missing | - |
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