On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
4.3
18 828 ratings
Ocean Vuong
Recommended by: Andrew Garfield
"Ocean Vuong's novel is a letter from a son to a mother who can't read, a blazing feat of truth-telling and pain, where the son writes deep into a trauma-filled past but also of love and fights for self-identity. The latter part of which can be considered the main arc of the story." His prose is lyrical, walking the line of how complications are tied with family, destruction and beauty often held in coming of age, replete with hurt and the beauty in human connection.
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
4.7
1 887 ratings
Ocean Vuong
Time Is a Mother
4.5
702 ratings
Ocean Vuong
Recommended by: Andrew Garfield
"Time Is a Mother" is one of the eight pieces when Ocean Vuong went into a poetic exploration of family, loss, and identity. "Loss, and his mother's absence," central to his poetry, is here married to grief and healing in a narrative that reflects his personal and collective, yet obsessed-over history, on art, and its nature to help with how one goes about inner growth and their business.