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02209aam a2200421 i 4500 001 AB32D288AAB311E99292ED2C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190720010024 007 n 008 190311s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0593104293 (paperback) : : 020 $a 9780593104293 (paperback) : : 035 $a (OCoLC)1089692571 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Vuong, Ocean. 245 1 $a On Earth we're briefly gorgeous $h [Large Print] : $b a novel / $c Ocean Vuong. 246 3 $a On Earth we are briefly gorgeous. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Random House Large Print, $c [2019] 300 $a 351 pages (large print) ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, this book is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. 541 $d 20190718. 650 7 $a Vietnamese Americans $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Large type books. 650 $a Mothers and sons $v Fiction. 650 $a Discrimination $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Epistolary fiction. 941 $a 10 952 $l GMPD771 $d 20230210022352.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909054445.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804023549.0 952 $l FWPE284 $d 20210505010306.0 952 $l VYPA964 $d 20200603015332.0 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20200306011133.0 952 $l ZIPA815 $d 20191219164850.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20191005013113.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20190913010100.0 952 $l FDPC194 $d 20190720010137.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AB32D288AAB311E99292ED2C97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search