01431nam a22002537a 4500 20260326102638.0 260203b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780525562047 HSLRC FIC V86on 2019 Vuong, Ocean, 1988- author. 60252 On earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel / Ocean Vuong. On earth we are briefly gorgeous 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"-- Provided by publisher. National Book Award for Fiction, 2019 Longlist Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2020 Longlist Single mothers Fiction. 60253 Mothers and sons Fiction. 60254 Families Fiction. 60255 Domestic fiction 60256 lcc BK 98645 98645 0 0 lcc 0 0 FIC HSLRC HSLRC FIC 2026-02-03 495.00 1 FIC V86on 2019 HS15053 2026-02-23 00:00:00 2026-02-06 2026-02-03 BK