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 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, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.
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Truth be told, reading this book was not pleasant at all. In other words, I find this novel demanding, distracting and discomforting. My limited vocabulary and the narrator’s stream of consciousness prevented me from understanding and completing it. As I t...
评分Truth be told, reading this book was not pleasant at all. In other words, I find this novel demanding, distracting and discomforting. My limited vocabulary and the narrator’s stream of consciousness prevented me from understanding and completing it. As I t...
评分不知道大家知不知道 这种以书信形式写的小说叫epistolary novel 可以epistolary各种 比如Cheryl Strayed的“Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar”是epistolary essay 分享好了拜拜
评分不知道大家知不知道 这种以书信形式写的小说叫epistolary novel 可以epistolary各种 比如Cheryl Strayed的“Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar”是epistolary essay 分享好了拜拜
评分不知道大家知不知道 这种以书信形式写的小说叫epistolary novel 可以epistolary各种 比如Cheryl Strayed的“Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar”是epistolary essay 分享好了拜拜
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"Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are." "Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted." 真实得宛如切肤之痛。
评分this is depressingly good
评分读不下去。too sentimental。Andras Schiff在Royal College of Music的一堂Master class上讲到舒伯特即兴曲时说道：always (play with) sentiments, but never sentimental. James Baldwin looked through and beyond his pain, as a black man, as a gay man, as a foreigner. But this writer can't seem to think beyond his pain. It's a dump of inflictions, offering no catharsis.
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