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Ocean Vuong on Grief and Language

Ocean Vuong's Brief But Spectacular Take on grief and language

“When a loved one dies, you experience your life in just two days, today, when they are no longer here, and yesterday, the immense, vast yesterday, when they were here,” says Ocean Vuong, author most recently of Time Is a Mother (Penguin Press, 2022), in this installment of PBS NewsHour’s “Brief But Spectacular” arts and culture video series.

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Ocean Vuong
Time Is a Mother
Penguin Press
Brief But Spectacular
PBS NewsHour
2022

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