On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Introduction

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is the debut novel by Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong, published by Penguin Press on June 4, 2019.[1] An epistolary novel, it is written in the form of a letter from a Vietnamese American son to his illiterate mother. It was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction,[2] and was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction.[3]


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