Fiction
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong's debut novel, in the Penguin paperback, is structured as a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read it. The book moves between Vietnam and Connecticut, between memory and present tense, between the violence inherited by immigrants and the tenderness that survives it. Vuong's sentences are precise, lyrical, and unwilling to look away from difficulty. Penguin's edition presents the novel in a standard paperback that does not compete with the prose.For readers who want fiction that treats family damage as a form of inheritance that can still be refused.
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