On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Guillaume Musso author of Onyeka and the

author of Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun

Running for their lives

A memory and a warning to the future

She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up

I learnt that I was wrong about almost everything

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Guillaume Musso author of Onyeka and theOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a