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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.

Ocean Vuong's poetic debut novel about a Vietnamese immigrant family, told as a letter from a son to his illiterate mother.

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Language
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Vuong's novel shatters form and expectation in this luminous exploration of race, class, and queer identity. The protagonist's letter to his mother reveals their family's traumatic history and his own coming-of-age as a gay man in America. A testament to the power of language and the body's memory. ## Related reading If this resonates, you might also reach for [The Thirty Names of Night](/products/the-thirty-names-of-night/).

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