On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Format:Paperback Once a year

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drugs and rock & roll are his sustenance

befuddling her patrician mother while going unnoticed by her father

A compelling memoir of a gay Catholic woman struggling to find balance between being a daughter and a mother raising her son with a loving partner in the face of discrimination

From a teenager institutionalized for her passion for women to the mother who must come out to her young sons at the risk of losing them -- from the cautious academic to the raucous liberated femme -- each woman represented here tells of forging a unique path toward the difficult but emancipating recognition of herself

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Format:Paperback Once a yearThe instant New York Times Bestseller Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction "A lyrical work of self discovery that's shockingly intimate and insistently universal Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning." Ron Charles, The Washington Post Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother