Review of "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" by Ocean Vuong

A short book, but one with a lot to it...coming of age as gay in rural Connecticut, the Vietnam war and its impact on Vietnamese and Americans, the devastation wrought by opioids on working class communities, deindustrialisation and poverty...and what it's like to be a writer in the shadow of all that. And death, and abandonment, and separation. Just brilliant really, and I may read it again.