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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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  • Ocean Vuong, 2018
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    / Novels

    On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong’s first novel, highlights themes of familial ancestry and otherness. Published in 2019, it became a New York Times best seller and won the New England Book Award for fiction and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. In


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    On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong’s first novel, highlights themes of familial ancestry and otherness. Published in 2019, it became a New York Times best seller and won the New England Book Award for fiction and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. In


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