Everything you need to understand or teach On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong.
In Ocean Vuong's debut novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, he explores themes involving the complex nature of memory, family, language, and love in the formation of identity. Through the narrator's intimate love letter to his mother, the author reconstructs a series of lives and losses, marrying disparate recollections, and events to create a patchwork of poetic reminiscences.