His childhood is marked by abuse from his overworked mother, as well as the traumas he’s inherited from his mother’s and grandmother’s experiences during the Vietnam War. His first book became a hit movie, and his second was also a bestseller—but that was over 20 years ago, and much has changed in the life of Howard Stern since, from his departure from terrestrial radio, to his mega-bucks deal with SiriusXM, to shakeups in his personal life. No one can say Melinda Gates hasn’t had an impact on the world; she’s devoted much of her life to serving in powerful ways. Hardcover Javascript is not enabled in your browser. An abandoned suitcase discovered in Grand Central Terminal in 1946 contains the photographs of twelve female spies. What is the author’s relationship with pain and violence, inherited and lived first-hand? Learn more here. I am writing to go back to the time, at the rest stop in Virginia, when you stared, horror-struck, at the taxidermy buck hung over the soda machine by the restrooms, its antlers shadowing your face. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster, by Adam Higginbotham Born in Vietnam, Little Dog now lives with his abusive--and abused--mother and his schizophrenic grandmother. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is an ode to loss and struggle, to being a Vietnamese American, to Hartford, Connecticut, and it’s a compassionate epistolary ode to a mother who may or may not know how to read. This site uses cookies. But I wasn't trying to make a sentence-I was trying to break free. Vuong’s is poetry that lingers in the blood long after the words have run out.” —Barbara VanDenburgh, USA Today   “Vuong is masterly at creating indelible, impressionistic images…Vuong beautifully evokes [Trevor’s] seductive power over Little Dog: This is some of the most moving writing I’ve read about two boys experimenting together…The book is brilliant in the way it pays attention not to what our thoughts make us feel, but to what our feelings make us think. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. I was having a panic attack. When we meet the narrator of this novel, we don’t know his name, only that he is writing to his mother in a language she cannot read. The variances of books include hardcover, paperback, and digital versions. Ocean Vuong is a master. Nevertheless, this is a haunting meditation on loss, love, and the limits of human connection. For years, we feared them. Kidnapped us. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. It is about who we are, and how we find ourselves in our bodies, in each other, in countries, on this earth: truly a masterpiece.”—Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers. $31.50 Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, by Casey Cep Members save with free shipping everyday! Some format options have been disabled. In his latest, the baby boomer looks back to his own childhood in the midcentury American midwest. Millions of soldiers deploy. It depicts a family history of intergenerational abuse mixed with fierce love. Millions die. It is also a gorgeous argument for astonishment over irony—for the transformative possibilities of love.”—Ben Lerner, author of Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04   “One is not often given the chance to apply words like “brilliant” and “remarkable” to any novels, certainly not first novels. Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-to Guide, by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark The Black Leopard is a mercenary able to shape-shift into a jungle cat, and the Red Wolf, also called Tracker, is a hunter of lost folk, with an incredible sense of smell that enables him to hone in on his quarry from vast distances. You let out a clipped chuckle, then paused, took out your pocketbook, your face pinched, and recounted our money.What is a country but a life sentence?The time with a gallon of milk. This title is not available for your card type. At once a witness to the … The number of individuals who can recount firsthand their experiences during World War II is sadly dwindling, but that doesn’t mean there are no new stories left to tell. “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” is, at the same time, filled with showy, affected writing, with forced catharses and swollen quasi-profundities. He must also adapt to the world as a gay man and as a writer—the novel’s beating heart rests in Little Dog’s first, doomed love affair with another teenage boy, and in his attempts to describe what being a writer truly is. The year isn’t over, but so many fantastic new books have already been published, that we would feel amiss if we didn’t stop to recognize some of our favorite reads thus far. Benham has Frannie spy on his wife, Meg, whom he suspects of scandal, but Frannie and Meg become lovers. Hardcover A writer now, he addresses his story as a letter to his mother, who cannot read, "to tell you everything you'll never know." After he had given the eulogy for the stepdaughter he’d allegedly murdered, he himself was shot by another relative. Humanity musters its greatest fleet. 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