On
Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong (Author, Narrator),
Penguin Audio (Publisher)
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An
instant New York Times Best Seller!
Longlisted
for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction,
the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award
Shortlisted
for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2019 New
England Book Award for Fiction!
Named
one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly,
Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V.
Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers
Weekly, and more.
“A
lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently
universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” (Ron Charles,
The Washington Post)
Poet
Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love,
and the redemptive power of storytelling.
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 20s, 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. Asking questions
central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and
trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly
Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about
the obliterating silence of not being heard.
With stunning urgency and
grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds and asks
how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question
of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most
important debut novel of many years.
Named a Best Book of the Year
by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, Time, Esquire, The
Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public
Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment
Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The
Wall Street Journal Magazine, and more!
Product
details
Author :
Ocean Vuong
Narrator :
Ocean Vuong
Audible.com Release Date :
June 04, 2019
Publisher :
Penguin Audio
Version :
Unabridged
Language :
English
ASIN :
B07PMFD9CK
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