![]() Ron Charles * Washington Post * Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous confirms him as a master of inventive language that has its roots in the spoken word but reaches shimmering heights of lyricism, too. Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning. Emerging from the most marginalized circumstances, he has produced a lyrical work of self-discovery that's shockingly intimate and insistently universal. * New York Times * Vuong is surely a literary descendant of the author of Leaves of Grass. the truths arrived at in this book are valuable precisely because they are steeped in feeling. The tenderness of the prose feels like a triumph against a world hellbent on embittering the tenderhearted. * BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review * This is some of the most moving writing I've read. * The Times * A stunning, beautiful book. This impressive debut hints at even greater things to come. Vuong has originality running through his veins, and a good deal of humour and impish charm.
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