On earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel /
Vuong, Ocean, 1988-
On earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel / On earth we are briefly gorgeous Ocean Vuong. - New York : Penguin Press, 2019. - 246 pages ; 20 cm
"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"--
National Book Award for Fiction, 2019 Longlist Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2020 Longlist
9780525562047
Single mothers--Fiction.
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Domestic fiction
FIC / V86on 2019
On earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel / On earth we are briefly gorgeous Ocean Vuong. - New York : Penguin Press, 2019. - 246 pages ; 20 cm
"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"--
National Book Award for Fiction, 2019 Longlist Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2020 Longlist
9780525562047
Single mothers--Fiction.
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Domestic fiction
FIC / V86on 2019