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Ella Tang

Ocean Wong’s “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”

June: “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”

Through letters between Little Dog, a Vietnamese American man, and his illiterate mother, Ocean Vuong tells a multigenerational story that grapples with themes of race, sexuality and gender. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is an epistolary novel, memoir, and series of poems all in one, reaffirming the importance of storytelling and language.

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