A review by safekeeper
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

informative sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.25

Eh. The writing is creative, and I appreciate the insight (and I always appreciate audio books read by the author), and it's a credit to the author that the writing is so realistic I had to go online to double check if it really was fiction. However, I also found it way too monotonously depressive, with some depictions of abuse and horrible animal suffering thrown in. Don't care for books that just wallow in sadness and misery. Can't bring myself to give it a lower grade, but would not recommend this.