TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vuong, Ocean,
TI  - On earth we're briefly gorgeous: a novel / 
SN  - 9780525562047
AV  - FIC  V86on 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - Single mothers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - Families
KW  - Domestic fiction
N2  - "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"--
ER  -