On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Wong: Post Traumatic Experience of Characters

Abstract

The novel by Vietnamese American poet named ocean Wongpublished by penguin press .An epistolary novel is written in a form of letter by Vietnamese American son to his illiterate mother the novel  explores about the complicated relationship between mom and son The son undoubtedly fall in love with his own mother. The character of mother is described as abusive and suffering from trauma ,that has power to haunt her past and present. It underscores the multi generational effects of war, trauma, and abuse . The narrator little dog narrates  his own life story in this novel His family were migrating from Vietnam to Connecticut  and they were unspooling the trauma of war and illness

Darting between lyricism and chattiness. The novel exhibit the post traumatic experience of lan and rose. The novel is much as  about the power of telling one’s  own story as it obliterating silence of not being heard. The  novel reform narrative tropes from West cannon, The novel is the traces of narrator’ s own life story