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    Dive Into Ocean Vuong’s “Briefly Gorgeous” Debut Novel

    Turtleneck by Fendi. Earrings Ocean’s own.

    “The way he watched me back there in the field, when we worked briefly, side by side, our arms brushing against each other…his eyes lingering, then flitting away when I caught them.

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    • I was seen—I who had seldom been seen by anyone.” Ocean Vuong’s description of a boy falling in love with his employer’s son exemplifies the lyrical and frequently devastating power of his debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous [Penguin].

    Set in working-class New England during the early aughts, the coming-of-age story is told from the perspective of Little Dog, a twentysomething Vietnamese-American man reflecting on his childhood in a letter to his illiterate mother.

    The novel explores themes of queer identity and alienation in an almost impressionistic swirl, abandoning traditional narrative patterns for more striking architecture. “Every moment is a doorway,” says the 30-year-o