Disarmingly frank, raw in subject matter but polished in style and language, this debut reveals the strengths and limitations of human connection.
Penguin Press
9780525562023
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Penguin Press
9780525562023
Disarmingly frank, raw in subject matter but polished in style and language, this debut reveals the strengths and limitations of human connection.
Poet Ocean Vuong’s highly anticipated debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, takes the form of a letter from a young writer to his illiterate mother. The writer, who goes by the nickname Little Dog and whose life bears a strong resemblance to Vuong’s own, is the first of his family to go to college.…
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