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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Inside the Book: Ocean Vuong (ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS)

“It was an attempt to see if language can really be a bridge, as it is often aspired to be, and ultimately that it could fail.” In this video, Ocean Vuong speaks about the letter he wrote to his illiterate mother that inspired his debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press, 2019). A profile of Vuong by Rigoberto González appears in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Ocean Vuong
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Penguin Press
2019
July/August 2019

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