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PFLAG Mount Pleasant Book Club

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Name: PFLAG Mount Pleasant Book Club
Date: November 11, 2024
Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CST
Event Description:
The book for November is On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous (https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Were-Briefly.../dp/0525562044/) A New York Times bestseller • Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction • Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling “A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post “This is one of the best novels I’ve ever read...Ocean Vuong is a master. This book a masterpiece.”—Tommy Orange, author of There There and Wandering Stars On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. 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. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.
Location:
Belle Center 107 W Broad Street Mount Pleasant
Date/Time Information:
Monday, November 11th at 5:30 PM
Contact Information:
Bob Mueller 100 N Main, Apt 202 Mount Pleasant 319-201-0302
Fees/Admission:
No admission; Open to all
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