The Indy Book Club: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous shows how often love is tied to pain

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The Indy Book Club: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous shows how often love is tied to pain
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The third pick of our fortnightly book club goes from tenderness to trauma and back again, says Annie Lord

n Earth We’re Briefly GorgeousPrize-winning poet Ocean Vuong, is a love letter from Vietnamese-American son “Little Dog” to his mum Rose, whose illiteracy means she will never read it. Sitting in the murkiness between fiction and memoir,sees Little Dog telling Rose their story. How she was conceived in a brothel by a soon-to-disappear American soldier during the. How she married a man who beat her until her skin turned purple.

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