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On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vuong, Ocean, 1988- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Vietnamese Americans > Fiction.
Adult child abuse victims > Fiction.
Coming out (Sexual orientation) > Fiction.
Children of prostitutes > Fiction.
Schizophrenics > Family relationships > Fiction.
Mothers and sons > Fiction.
Discrimination > Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Cultural Heritage.
FICTION / Coming of Age.
Schizophrenics > Family relationships.
Discrimination.
Coming out (Sexual orientation)
Children of prostitutes.
Adult child abuse victims.
Mothers and sons.
Vietnamese Americans.
Mother-son relationship > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Gay fiction.
Epistolary fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.

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