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Simply a Beautiful Memoir

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

January 31, 2020 by Rachel Leave a Comment

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is simply a beautiful book. It is the memoir a young man who is the son of a Vietnamese immigrant single mother. The whole book is written as a letter to his mother, although she cannot read so he knows she will never read his words. The author describes his childhood in Hartford and touches on his mother and grandmother’s lives in Vietnam during the war years before they left for America. Their lives were full of intense pain and […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, Hartford, ocean vuong

Rachel's CBR12 Review No:6 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, Hartford, ocean vuong ·
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To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

November 13, 2019 by Leedock Leave a Comment

This is a novel that I will be thinking about for a very long time. It’s so far out of my sphere of relatability that it is almost impossible for me to form a coherent thought about it. Not easy to read, and equally difficult to review. Weaving back and forth through time, Vuong’s novelized autobiography is about growing up as a Vietnamese immigrant in Hartford Connecticut in the 1990’s. Written as a letter to his mother who cannot read, the young man known as […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr11, Fiction, LGBTQ, ocean vuong

Leedock's CBR11 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr11, Fiction, LGBTQ, ocean vuong ·
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They say nothing lasts forever but they’re just scared it will last longer than they can love it.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

June 20, 2019 by vel veeter 1 Comment

This can be a very painful and pained book to read for several reasons. For these same reasons, it can also be difficult and frustrating to stick with. That said, it’s a beautifully written novel, and I would highly recommend finding the audiobook (I got it from Overdrive) because the language in the book is very prone to being read aloud and also because Vuong reads the book and this is the perfect kind of book for this. This book is kind of a long […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: ocean vuong, on earth we're briefly gorgeous

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:359 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ocean vuong, on earth we're briefly gorgeous ·
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