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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
“Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are.” Ocean Vuong’s strikingly lyrical debut novel is a work of transient beauty. Within On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous there are many arresting passages that are, quite frankly, beautiful. At times this beauty derives from Vuong’s subject matter, at times it…
1st pov, 2000s, 3.25 stars, abuse, Adult, ALIENATION, America, American, autofiction, beauty, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, boyhood, coming of age, Connecticut, Contemporary, cultural dissonance, existentialism, family, first love, gay, growing up, intergenerational, language, lgbtq+, LGBTQ+ Author, LITERARY FICTION, loneliness, Longing, lyrical prose, m/m, male authors, migration/immigration, mothers & sons, My reviews, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, POETRY, published in 2019, queer, read in 2021, reading, sex, style over character, trauma, Vietnam, Vietnamese American Author -
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.” Jhumpa Lahiri’s restrained storytelling is a pleasure to read. I…
1990s, 4 STARS, abortion/miscarriage/bodily autonomy, affairs, age gap, America, American, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, BOSTON, cold tone, collection of short stories, Connecticut, cultural dissonance, different styles (1st/2nd/3rd povs), favourite authors, female authors, HISTORICAL FICTION, identity, India, indian american author, intergenerational, Interpreter of Maladies, LITERARY FICTION, loneliness, MARRIAGE, Massachusetts, My reviews, Pulitzer Prize, pulitzer prize winners, short stories
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