Novel · 2019
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Novel · 2019 · American · Contemporary
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
A son writes a letter to a mother who cannot read it.
Epistolary novelLyrical fictionMigrationLanguageFamily
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The impossible address makes literary communication intimate and estranged at once. Lyrical association connects inherited war, labour and desire without forcing a linear confession.
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