01695cam a2200277 i 4500 545757802 TxAuBib 190311s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593104293 large print 0593104293 large print (OCoLC)9177 TEFBT eng TEFBT OCLCF rda TxAuBib rda Vuong, Ocean, 1988- On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel / Ocean Vuong. On Earth we are briefly gorgeous. [New York : Random House Large Print, [2019] 368 pages (large print) ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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 doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, this book is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard."--Publisher. Mothers and sons Fiction. Discrimination Fiction. Large type books. Fiction.