Ocean Vuong's ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS reads more like a memoir than a novel:
is like a series of Polaroid flashes in the dark, a collection of memories offered with the inherent unease of someone else’s scrapbook.
Shot through with violence—the physical and emotional abuse Little Dog suffers from his mother; the mental health issues which turn his mother and grandmother from doting to fearful; the pleasures of submitting to rough sex with the boyfriend he found harvesting tobacco—can be both beautiful and self-indulgent. Vuong’s exceptional control of language is sometimes undercut by the sophomoric devices of a poet caught in a book instead of a few pages.
When Little Dog’s boyfriend Trevor—something like a Swamp Yankee, fentanyl patches on his arm and an alcoholic dad in his trailer—introduces him to 50 Cent by singing “Many Men,” I was transported back to my cousin’s pickup. I remembered the speakers shaking my chest cavity as we drove through Southeastern Ohio or.
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