A review by user_swag
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

5.0

Words cannot describe how i’ve loved this book it really was something so intimate that i felt like a stranger minding someone else’s business but at the same time I felt understood as a first generation daughter of immigrants, the pain of never being fully capable of expressing my feelings to my mother, like if I’m talking to a stranger I’ve known my entire life, so accurated that some quotes left me staring at the book with a feeling i couldn’t elaborate.
I wonder if one day i will finally tell my mother how i feel and especially what she made me feel but I know that there’s a wall between us that is unbreakable so I’ll just end up looking at her and wondering if I’m really her daughter or just someone she thought she knew.
Ocean Vuong is young but so talented, I watched some of his interviews and i really do love him.