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A review by dytiscusfriend
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This book broke my heart open. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a gift. This book is abundant and generous and personal and painful and achingly relevant. Ocean Vuong contextualizes so much and offers a poem composed of agony, delight, clarity, and connection.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Genocide, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, and Transphobia
Moderate: Vomit