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Happiness and Love is at its best when the narrative swings between interior life and social performance. I especially loved the actress who rides into the dinner party like a cowboy, cutting through everyone’s bullshit and giving all that private anxiety a grand stage.

I absolutely adore Ocean Vuong’s voice: clear, open, and profoundly tender. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a book about pain, memory, family, and the political forces that shape a life, but it continually carries us back toward the world—where we are both the body drowning and the water—and toward one another, finding a fragile joy in our mutual vulnerability.