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A review by strawberrysheepie
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
So so so beautiful!!! Includes heavy topics so read with caution. Vuong’s writing is just so gorgeous and I can’t wait to read some more. This is definitely a book I’ll reread, and if you like poetry you’ll like this. One of my fave lines: ‘let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence - but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.’
Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, War, and Injury/Injury detail