Vuong, Ocean,  1988- <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/> National Book Award for Fiction, 2019 Longlist  Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2020 Longlist 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780525562047 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Single mothers--Fiction.<br/>Mothers and sons--Fiction.<br/>Families--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Domestic fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>FIC   / V86on 2019