Welcome to our June Book Club event!
The votes are in! Our book for June will be On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
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.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41880609-on-earth-we-re-briefly-gorgeous
Note: we are meeting at a pub, and they do require you purchase a drink while you're there. It doesn't have to be alcoholic, but it is the price of us using the pub. Thanks for your understanding! :)
PLEASE NOTE, WE'RE NOW IN THE KING EDWARD VII PUB, JUST A MINUTE WALK ALONG FROM FROM THE OLD PUB :)
Happy reading, see you there!