Join the HCSF Reading Group to discuss On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
In-Person Meeting
Sunday, October 19, 2025
4:30-6:00 pm Pacific
In-Person, San Francisco
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Registration ends Friday, October 17
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong 2020 256 pages
Acclaimed Poet Ocean Vuong's first novel is epistolary in form: a letter from a gay Vietnamese-American son in his late 20s to his immigrant mother who cannot read. "a painful but extraordinary coming-of-age story about surviving the aftermath of trauma…Vuong’s language soars as he writes of beauty, survival, and freedom, which sometimes isn’t freedom at all, but ‘simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there." (NPR)
Questions about our meetings or how we choose our books?
Contact:
Kirsten Miclau
HCSF Reading Group Organizer
readinggroup@harvardclubsf.org
Cover image: Penguin Random House