A New York Times bestseller Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction Ocean Vuong s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling

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A lyrical work of self-discovery that s shockingly intimate and insistently universal Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning. Ron Charles, The Washington Post

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