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~ Winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction - 2020, the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for Fiction and Poetry - 2020, the Publishing Triangle Award for the Ferro-Grumley Awards - 2020, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award - 2020
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read and 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.
“A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal. Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” -- The Washington Post