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SUMMARY:One Book Chelmsford presents: A Conversation with Author and Poet Ocean Vuong\, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
DESCRIPTION:Please note this is a virtual event. Please CLICK HERE to 
 register in advance and receive the link to join.\n\n***THIS EVENT WILL NOT 
 BE RECORDED.*** Please make every effort to attend the event live on 
 Zoom.\n\nJoin us for a very special event with prize-winning poet\, 
 novelist and educator Ocean Vuong\, author of our One Book Chelmsford 2022 
 selection\, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous\, in conversation with 
 Professor Sandra Lim\, Ph.D.\, prize-winning poet\, and professor of 
 English at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell.\n\nA brief reading 
 will be followed by a conversation between our esteemed guests. Questions 
 for the author can be submitted in advance to 
 jfitzhanso@chelmsfordlibrary.org to be forwarded to Professor Lim. Many 
 thanks to Penguin Random House\, publisher of On Earth We're Briefly 
 Gorgeous\, for making this event possible.\n\nAbout the author\, Ocean 
 Vuong:\n\nOcean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry 
 collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds and the New York Times bestselling 
 novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the 2019 MacArthur 
 “Genius” Grant\, he is also the winner of the Whiting Award and the 
 T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have been featured in The Atlantic\, 
 Harper's Magazine\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, The New Yorker\, and 
 The New York Times. Born in Saigon\, Vietnam\, he currently lives in 
 Northampton\, Massachusetts. (Photo credit\, Tom Hines\n\nAbout Sandra 
 Lim:\n\nSandra Lim is the author of three collections of poetry: most 
 recently\, The Curious Thing (W.W. Norton\, 2021)\; The Wilderness (W.W. 
 Norton\, 2014)\, and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press\, 2006). She has 
 received the Barnard Women Poets Prize\, the Levis Reading Prize\, a 
 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and a 
 Guggenheim Fellowship. She is an Associate Professor of English at the 
 University of Massachusetts Lowell and also serves on the poetry faculty in 
 the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. Born in Seoul\, Korea\, 
 she lives in Cambridge\, MA.\n\nAbout the novel:\n\nThe book is a letter 
 from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker\, Little 
 Dog\, is in his late twenties\, it navigates a family’s history that 
 began before he was born—a history whose epicenter is rooted in 
 Vietnam—and becomes a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never 
 known. The son serves as witness to his mother’s story\, from her 
 undeniable love for her family and her determination to survive in 
 Vietnam\, then in the United States\, to her struggles with mental health 
 and unflinching accounts of her physical abuse. As he unearths his 
 family’s journey to present day\, as he seeks understanding\, it leads to 
 an unforgettable revelation about what it means to tell your own 
 story—and the silence of going unheard. What happens to language and 
 storytelling as a tool of communication when a listener is not promised? 
 \n\nA masterful work of fiction\, On Earth We're Briely Gorgeous is a 
 brutally honest exploration of race\, class\, sexuality\, masculinity\, 
 aging\,and dying. Vuong asks questions central to our American moment\, 
 immersed as we are in addiction\, violence\, and trauma\, but undergirded 
 by compassion and tenderness. Having survived trauma\, how do we survive 
 its aftermath? How do we make of it a kind of joy—and\, above all\, a 
 kind of life? These questions power oneof the most important debut novels 
 of many years. With stunning urgency and grace\, Vuong writes of people 
 caught between disparate worlds\, and asks how we heal and rescue one 
 another without forsaking who we are.\n\nPresented by Chelmsford in 
 partnership with the public libraries in Andover\, Boxford\, Carlisle\, 
 Danvers\, Dracut\, Groton\, Groveland\, Holden\, Lowell\, Methuen\, 
 Newburyport\, South Hamilton\, Tewksbury\, and West Newbury\n\nJoin 
 Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9exaHHT7T-m_Tym7ovvKfw
ORGANIZER;CN="Jill Kenny":MAILTO:jkenny@chelmsfordlibrary.org
CATEGORIES:Literature & Learning, Adult
CONTACT;CN="Jill Kenny":MAILTO:jkenny@chelmsfordlibrary.org
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