Ocean Vuong's novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a beautiful collection of letters about Little Dog's experiences as he grows up. He reflects on his memories by writing to his mother, who cannot read or speak much English. The overall theme of this fictional epistolary is finding your place in society and overcoming challenges to discover your identity. This theme is strong when Little Dog shares and reminds his mother of the difficulties-

The fiction novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong is a collection of memories and recollections in letter form, from the first-person perspective of the main character 'Little Dog', a Vietnamese boy. Little Dog is writing to his mother about his rediscovered memories of moving to America after the Vietnam war. Little Dog writes to his mother who cannot read, trying to show her who he is and what it means to be truly human...