An 'excruciatingly beautiful' novel from a celebrated poet
Every week, The Thread checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment. This week, we spoke to Aaron Cance from The Printed Garden in Sandy, Utah.Ocean Vuong has earned glowing reviews for his poetry, and now his mastery of language extends into the fiction realm.Bookseller Aaron Cance recommends Vuong’s novel, “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.”The novel follows Little Dog, a young boy drawn from Vuong’s own childhood self.“It’s a novel about identity. It’s about Little Dog’s insatiable hunger to find his place in the world,” Cance said. “But before he…
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