ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS
Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction. 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.