On Earth we're briefly gorgeous, a novel, Ocean Vuong
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On Earth we're briefly gorgeous, a novel, Ocean Vuong
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eng
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no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous
Responsibility statement
Ocean Vuong
Sub title
a novel
Summary
"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
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On Earth we are briefly gorgeous
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- Coming out (Sexual orientation) -- Fiction
- Discrimination -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Adult child abuse victims
- Vietnamese Americans
- Novels
- Bildungsromans
- Fiction
- Children of prostitutes -- Fiction
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- Mothers and sons
- Epistolary fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Schizophrenics + Family relationships
- Gay fiction
- Coming out (Sexual orientation)
- Children of prostitutes
- FICTION / Literary
- Vietnamese Americans -- Fiction
- Schizophrenics + Family relationships -- Fiction
- Discrimination
- FICTION / Cultural Heritage
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- Classification4
- Creator1
- Genre6
- Subject22
- Coming out (Sexual orientation) -- Fiction
- Discrimination -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Adult child abuse victims
- Vietnamese Americans
- Novels
- Bildungsromans
- Fiction
- Children of prostitutes -- Fiction
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- Mothers and sons
- Epistolary fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Schizophrenics + Family relationships
- Gay fiction
- Coming out (Sexual orientation)
- Children of prostitutes
- FICTION / Literary
- Vietnamese Americans -- Fiction
- Schizophrenics + Family relationships -- Fiction
- Discrimination
- FICTION / Cultural Heritage
- Content1
- Author1
- Other version1