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A review by larakaa
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
challenging
tense
medium-paced
I'm not able to rate it at the moment, might do it later. Reading through this is a hard earned experience. It's poetic, it's gripping, it's brutal and disgusting, it's often depressing - it's life so much that you keep forgetting that it's a novel not a memoir. So it's genuinely great in that regard but I also didnt enjoy most of it and really had to push myself to finish it.
Graphic: Drug use, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, and Cancer