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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late 20s, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born - a history whose epicentre 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.

In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents) and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, mixing up her maid's wages and leaving the gas on all night, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her.

La guerra, l'amore per una madre e per la lingua d'adozione, l'emigrazione, la violenza, l'identità, la scoperta del corpo e della perdita, una vita intera a capire cosa significa diventare cittadini di un altro paese: il romanzo d'esordio del poeta Ocean Vuong (T.S. Eliot Prize 2017) è la rivelazione dell'ultima stagione editoriale negli Stati Uniti, considerato dalla critica l'emblema di cosa può essere il romanzo americano. Little Dog, la voce di questo romanzo di esordio tradotto in tutto il mondo, ricostruisce in una lettera alla madre la storia della sua famiglia.