ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS

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 epicentre 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 o nce a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of ra ce, class, ...[Leer más]