{"product_id":"on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous","title":"On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe instant \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBestseller \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003el…N\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eot so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” —Ron Charles, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOcean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEsquire, The Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, Apple, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGood Housekeeping, The New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, Vogue.com, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand more! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44173539115220,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/FullSizeRender_aee17127-bfaa-45d2-870a-a020195e1904.jpg?v=1706035927","url":"https:\/\/bluebooks.ae\/products\/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous","provider":"Blue Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}