On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Explained
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous |
Author: | Ocean Vuong |
Audio Read By: | Ocean Vuong |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Penguin Press |
Pub Date: | June 4, 2019 |
Media Type: | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages: | 256 |
Isbn: | 978-0-525-56202-3 |
Dewey: | 813/.6 |
Congress: | PS3622.U96 O52 2019 |
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is the debut novel by Vietnamese American poet Ocean Vuong, published by Penguin Press on June 4, 2019.[1] An epistolary novel, it is written in the form of a letter from a Vietnamese American son to his illiterate mother. It was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction[2] and was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction.[3]
Plot
The novel is written in the form of a letter by a young Vietnamese American nicknamed Little Dog, whose life mirrors that of Ocean Vuong. The letter is written to Little Dog's mother Hong, more often called or translated as Rose (hồng). The novel has a nonlinear narrative structure.[4]
The novel also recounts the life of Little Dog's grandmother, Lan, who escapes an arranged marriage during the Vietnam War and becomes a prostitute. She's four months pregnant when she meets a white American soldier. They marry and she gives birth to a child, Rose. Later, when Rose is Little Dog's mother, she is barely literate, having left school at the age of five when her schoolhouse in Vietnam collapsed during an American napalm raid. She suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder as a result. Rose marries an abusive man but eventually separates from him.
Working in a nail salon, she struggles as a single parent living in Hartford, Connecticut with her son and her mother Lan. Living in America as refugees, the three can barely speak English. Little Dog, who is gay, is abused by his mother throughout his childhood. Halfway through the novel, Little Dog meets a young white man named Trevor while working on a tobacco farm one summer, and the two begin a romantic relationship. Trevor eventually becomes addicted to opioids and later overdoses and dies.[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Reception
Critical response
At the review aggregator website Book Marks, which assigns individual ratings to book reviews from mainstream literary critics, the novel received a cumulative "Positive" rating based on 41 reviews: 22 "Rave" reviews, 14 "Positive" reviews, and 5 "Mixed" reviews.[11] The novel debuted at number six on The New York Times Hardcover Fiction best-sellers list for the week ending June 8, 2019.[12] It spent six weeks on the list.[13]
Kirkus Reviews, in a rave review, wrote, "The result is an uncategorizable hybrid of what reads like memoir, bildungsroman, and book-length poem. More important than labels, though, is the novel's earnest and open-hearted belief in the necessity of stories and language for our survival. A raw and incandescently written foray into fiction by one of our most gifted poets."[14] Ron Charles of The Washington Post praised the novel, calling it "permanently stunning".[15] In his review for Time, Vietnamese-American novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen wrote, "Vuong refuses to be embarrassed. He transforms the emotional, the visceral, the individual into the political in an unforgettable–indeed, gorgeous–novel, a book that seeks to affect its readers as profoundly as Little Dog is affected".[16] Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Steph Cha called the novel "a book of sustained beauty and lyricism, earnest and relentless, a series of high notes that trembles exquisitely almost without break."[17] Writing in The New Yorker, Jia Tolentino sees the "structural hallmarks of Vuong's poetry—his skill with elision, juxtaposition, and sequencing" in the novel.[18] Heller McAlpin, writing for NPR, said that "Vuong's language soars as he writes of beauty, survival, and freedom".[19] E. M. Tran, in the Harvard Review, found the novel's genre difficult to categorize but saw genre as beside the point, as "This writer puts into his letters all of his hurt, happiness, and self-discovery—and in giving a name to those memories and experiences, he brings them into being."[20]
Dwight Garner of The New York Times gave the novel a mixed review, writing, "Vuong's writing about nail salons, and the way mothers raised their children in them, is moving and rarely less than excellent. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is, at the same time, filled with showy, affected writing, with forced catharses and swollen quasi-profundities. There are enough of these that this novel's keel can lodge in the mud."[21] Tessa Hadley, in The Guardian, found the subject matter moving but stated that "the flow of the story is freighted with too much of a different kind of writing: an explicit commentary on the meaning of what's happening, or a sort of choric lyrical lamenting between scenes."[22]
Accolades
Listicles
Most Anticipated Books
Year-End Lists
Adaptation
A film adaptation of the novel by A24 was announced on the December 21, 2020, episode of The A24 Podcast.[97] Bing Liu, director of Oscar-nominated documentary Minding the Gap, is attached to adapt the novel to screen.[98]
Notes and References
- Web site: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong . . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226202324/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/600633/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous-by-ocean-vuong/9780525562023/ . live.
- Web site: May 4, 2020 . Our Video Celebration of the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award . . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226205255/https://www.penfaulkner.org/2020/05/04/our-video-celebration-of-the-2020-pen-faulkner-award/ . live.
- Web site: September 19, 2019 . 2019 National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction . . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226205255/https://www.nationalbook.org/2019-national-book-awards-longlist-for-fiction/ . live.
- Web site: 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous' by Ocean Vuong: A stunningly lyrical exploration of familial love and language . Ao . Bethany . June 21, 2019 . . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226202652/https://www.inquirer.com/arts/books/earth-briefly-gorgeous-ocean-vuong-bethany-ao-20190621.html . live.
- Web site: The Beauty of Men: Ocean Vuong's "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" . Min Hyoung Song . June 24, 2019 . Los Angeles Review of Books. December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226202620/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-beauty-of-men-ocean-vuongs-on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous/ . live.
- Web site: Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Reads More Like a Memoir Than a Novel . Zarley . B. David . July 17, 2019 . . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226202744/https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/ocean-vuong/ocean-vuong-on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous . live.
- Web site: Ocean Vuong Explores the Coming-of-Age of Queerness . Kuga . Mitchell . June 24, 2019 . . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226202922/https://www.gq.com/story/ocean-vuong-interview . live.
- Web site: Going Home With Ocean Vuong . subscription . Chow . Kat . June 4, 2019 . . December 26, 2023 . December 22, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231222192614/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/06/going-home-ocean-vuong-on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous/590938/ . live.
- Web site: Survival as a Creative Force: An Interview with Ocean Vuong . Quong . Spencer . June 5, 2019 . . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226202914/https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/05/survival-as-a-creative-force-an-interview-with-ocean-vuong/ . live.
- Web site: A poetic American novel of queer first love and family brutality . Hyde . Justine . August 16, 2019 . . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226203040/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/a-poetic-american-novel-of-queer-first-love-and-family-brutality-20190808-p52f8j.html . live.
- Web site: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous . . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226203817/https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous/ . live.
- Web site: Hardcover Fiction Books – Best Sellers . June 23, 2019 . . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226203654/https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2019/06/23/hardcover-fiction/ . live.
- Web site: Hardcover Fiction Books – Best Sellers . July 28, 2019 . . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226203802/https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2019/07/28/hardcover-fiction/ . live.
- Web site: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong . March 17, 2019 . . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226203749/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ocean-vuong/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous/ . live.
- News: Ocean Vuong's 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous' is permanently stunning . Charles . Ron . Ron Charles (critic) . May 28, 2019 . . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226203811/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/ocean-vuongs-on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous-is-permanently-stunning/2019/05/28/b1f8a1ba-7ff7-11e9-95a9-e2c830afe24f_story.html . live.
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Is a Daring Tale of Queer Love and Pain . Nguyen . Viet Thanh . Viet Thanh Nguyen . June 6, 2019 . . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226204024/https://time.com/5601993/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous-book-review/ . live.
- Web site: Ocean Vuong's 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous' animates the visceral beauty of youth . Cha . Steph . Steph Cha . May 31, 2019 . Los Angeles Times. December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226100306/https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-review-ocean-vuong-earth-briefly-gorgeous-20190530-story.html . live.
- Ocean Vuong's Life Sentences. Tolentino. Jia. The New Yorker. June 3, 2019. en. 0028-792X . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226205235/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/10/ocean-vuongs-life-sentences . live.
- News: McAlpin . Heller . June 5, 2019 . 'On Earth' Is Gorgeous All The Way Through . NPR.
- Web site: Tran . E. M. . On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous . July 31, 2024 . Harvard Review . en-US.
- Web site: 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous' Captures a Young Immigrant's Troubles and Ecstasies . Garner . Dwight . Dwight Garner (critic) . May 27, 2019 . . December 26, 2023 . December 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226203804/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/books/review-on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous-ocean-vuong.html . live.
- News: Hadley . Tessa . June 14, 2019 . On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong review – portrait of the artist as a teenager . July 31, 2024 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
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