Friday, May 15, 2020--San Antonio
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong is a beautifully written book filled with metaphors and similes and sometimes just simple statements that indicate very unique observations by the writer. It is written as a letter to his illiterate mother which means it was really written as a letter to his illiterate mother as a way to analyze and process what had happened in the history of his family and, in particular, in his life. The book was on the long list for the National Book Award in 2019 and has rave reviews from TIME, NPR, New York Times, etc. The central character is gay, but the book is about being gay only in the sense that it is a part of the author's telling about the life of an immigrant family and his part of it. I gave the book 4 stars out of 5.
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