Coming of Age

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

by Ocean Vuong

A Vietnamese-American son writes a letter to his illiterate mother.

More Coming of Age

• The Book of Goose — Yiyun Li
• The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison
• The Girl with the Louding Voice — Abi Daré
• Almond — Sohn Won-Pyung
• Sooley — John Grisham
• The Catcher in the Rye — J. D. Salinger
• Deerskin — Robin McKinley
• Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me — Richard Fariña

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