On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

“ first foray into fiction is poetic in the deepest sense-not merely on the level of language, but in its structure and its intelligence…The result is an uncategorizable hybrid of what reads like memoir, bildungsroman, and book-length poem. “n epistolary masterpiece.Fearless, revelatory, extraordinary an essential acquisition for every library.” “A candid meditation on masculinity, art, and the inescapable pull of opioids…Vuong peels apart phrases and reconfigures them into new, surprising ideas.” Jacqueline Woodson, author of Red at the Bone

When writing is this good, who needs air?” I’m reading On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and there is so little air moving through my body as I read. “Sometimes a writer comes along and stops your breath. “This is one of the best novels I've ever read.Ocean Vuong is a master. Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf “A bruised, breathtaking love letter never meant to be sent. Vuong’s deeply felt work might just be the first great fiction of this modern, homegrown travesty, but it’s also a story that is enriched by both the beautiful and the ugly currents of American history.'

'et against quixotic hopes of the American Dream and the devastation of the opioid crisis. 'Raw.fearless. In prose as radiant and assured as his poetry, Vuong explores the ability of stories to heal generational wounds.' On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a book of sustained beauty and lyricism, earnest and relentless, a series of high notes that trembles exquisitely almost without break.arvelous.' 'Emerging from the most marginalized circumstances, has produced a lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal.' 'Vuong is a mightily gifted observer.moving and rarely less than excellent.' Praise for On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous : Longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence & PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Honor Title for the 2020 Asian Pacific American Award for Literature & 2020 Stonewall Book Awards’ Barbara Gittings Literature Awardįinalist/Shortlist for the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award, Lambda Literary Award, Kirkus Review Book Prize, Center For Fiction’s 2019 First Novel Prize, Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction, Goodreads Choice Award for Best Debut Novel, Dylan Thomas Prize, Lambda Literary Award, VCU Cabell First Novelist Award , Dublin Literary Award, Premio Terzani Prize, & Kulturhuset Stadsteatern International Literature Prize WINNER of the Digital Book World: Best Book WINNER of the Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction WINNER of the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize WINNER of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong