TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vuong,Ocean
ED  - Vuong, Ocean, 1988- author.,
TI  - On Earth we're briefly gorgeous: a novel 
SN  - 9780525562023
AV  - PS3622 .U96 V866 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Penguin Press, 
KW  - Coming out (Sexual orientation)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Vietnamese Americans
KW  - Children of prostitutes
KW  - Schizophrenics
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - Discrimination
KW  - Adult child abuse victims
N2  - "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"--
ER  -