Format:
Book
Author:
Vuong, Ocean, 1988- author.
Title:
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous / Ocean Vuong.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
Description:
246 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
"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.
Subjects:
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Coming of age -- Fiction.
Vietnamese Americans -- Fiction.
Discrimination -- Fiction.
Adult child abuse victims.
Coming out (Sexual orientation) -- Fiction.
Children of prostitutes -- Fiction.
Schizophrenics -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Self-realization -- Fiction.
Genre:
Bildungsromans.
Epistolary fiction.
Gay fiction.
Other Title:
On Earth we are briefly gorgeous
LCCN:
2018046290
ISBN:
0525562028
9780525562023 (hardcover)
Other Number:
1052450975
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
397621
Call Number:
FIC VUONG 2019
Course Reserves:
0
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# System items in:
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