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. - 246 pages ; 22 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"--
9780525562023 0525562028
2018046290
Coming out (Sexual orientation)--Fiction.
Vietnamese Americans--Fiction.
Children of prostitutes--Fiction.
Schizophrenics--Family relationships--Fiction.
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Discrimination--Fiction.
Adult child abuse victims--Fiction.
PS3622 .U96 / V866 2019
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel / On Earth we are briefly gorgeous. Ocean Vuong. - 246 pages ; 22 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"--
9780525562023 0525562028
2018046290
Coming out (Sexual orientation)--Fiction.
Vietnamese Americans--Fiction.
Children of prostitutes--Fiction.
Schizophrenics--Family relationships--Fiction.
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Discrimination--Fiction.
Adult child abuse victims--Fiction.
PS3622 .U96 / V866 2019