by Ocean Vuong
On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong, author and narrator Often, when an author reads his/her own book, the reading lacks something which a professional brings to the narration. This author reads too softly and emotively for my taste, and it tends to make the reader lose track of where each...
Little Dog writes a letter to his mother, knowing she can't read it, and tries to sort meaning out of the lives of himself, his mother, grandmother, grandfather and first lover. This novel, like himself and his mother before him, is born in the shadow of the Vietnam War but it is an American story o...