On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Format:Paperback I Promise captures with love

I Promise captures with love and honesty the intimate moments of parenting in all their messy glory -- from dealing with a kid who doesn't want to brush their teeth to looking under the bed for monsters to cuddling after a long day

Once a year

Skye's trying her hardest to ignore the friction that seems present in all her encounters with the confident

From a teenager institutionalized for her passion for women to the mother who must come out to her young sons at the risk of losing them -- from the cautious academic to the raucous liberated femme -- each woman represented here tells of forging a unique path toward the difficult but emancipating recognition of herself

Which is exactly when former filmmaker Ash Stewart enters camera left

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Format:Paperback I Promise captures with loveThe instant New York Times Bestseller Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction "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 Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother