Events › Genre Jumpers Book Club

Read a new genre every month! This month, we delve into Literary Fiction and Epistolary Novel with Ocean Vuong’s stunning debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. Written as a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read, this story unearths a family's history rooted in Vietnam and replanted in Hartford, Connecticut. Through the eyes of the narrator, Little Dog, the novel explores a traumatic past, a transformative first love, and the lyrical ways we attempt to heal across generational divides. Copies will be available at the Information Desk, and the e-book and e-audiobook versions are available on CloudLibrary. Preregister.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous