02580cam a2200577 i 4500 459157302 TxAuBib 20201210120000.0 181015s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018046290 9780525562023 hardcover $26.00 0525562028 hardcover $26.00 (OCoLC)1052450975 TxAuBib rda Vuong, Ocean, 1988- On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel / Ocean Vuong. On Earth we are briefly gorgeous. New York : Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2019. ©2019. 246 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. 20201210. ALA Notable Books - Fiction, 2020. Vietnamese Americans Fiction. Adult child abuse victims Fiction. Coming out (Sexual orientation) Fiction. Children of prostitutes Fiction. Schizophrenics Family relationships Fiction. Mothers and sons Fiction. Discrimination Fiction. Mother-son relationship Fiction. Authors Fiction. Extended families Fiction. Growing up Fiction. Emigration and Immigration Fiction. Letter writing Fiction. Loss (Psychology) Fiction. Mental illness Fiction. Poets Fiction. Single mothers Fiction. Teenage boy/boy relations Fiction. Refugees, Vietnamese Fiction. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Fiction. Domestic fiction. Epistolary fiction. Adult books for young adults. Coming-of-age stories.