On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong · 2019
How long does it take to read On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous?
About 5 hours
256 pages at 50 pages an hour. 11 days at 30 minutes a day. Work out your own time.
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.
How long does it take to read On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous?
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is 256 pages, so it takes about 5 hours to read at an average pace of 50 pages an hour. A relaxed reader at 35 pages an hour needs about 7 hours 19 minutes; a fast reader at 70 pages an hour, about 3 hours 39 minutes.
How many days to read On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous at 20 minutes a day?
About 16 days, reading 20 minutes a day at 50 pages an hour.
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