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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Vuong's two poetry collections are entitled Night Sky with Exit Wound (2016) and Time is a Mother (2022).

For books exploring similar themes, consider: The Sympathizer and The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen; Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai; The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis; The Leavers by Lisa Ko; The Son of Good Fortune by Lysley Tenorio; How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa; When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen; Beloved by Toni Morrison; and The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.

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