Vuong, Ocean,  1988- <br/><br/>
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous :  a novel / 
 On Earth we are briefly gorgeous. 
Ocean Vuong. 
 - 246 pages ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780525562023 0525562028 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2018046290 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Coming out (Sexual orientation)--Fiction.<br/>Vietnamese Americans--Fiction.<br/>Children of prostitutes--Fiction.<br/>Schizophrenics--Family relationships--Fiction.<br/>Mothers and sons--Fiction.<br/>Discrimination--Fiction.<br/>Adult child abuse victims--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3622 .U96  / V866 2019