'It seems like I'm in a parallel universe, and so I just felt that right now, I am trying to live slowly with it.'
After eight people were murdered, six of them of Asian descent, in the Atlanta-area spa shootings in March, a clip of author Ocean Vuong talking about toxic masculinity and violence went viral.
Vuong, 32, has become a celebrated voice, sharing his observations on culture and identity in addition to his award-winning poems and novels. He says his words are shaped by his experience growing up across a number of identities: immigrant, Asian American, gay and raised by a single mother. " made me a better person because I had to find different angles to the world. I couldn't just accept what was there."Vuong's debut novel"On Earth, We're Briefly Gorgeous," which comes out on paperback on June 1, is a semi-autographical novel written as a letter from a Vietnamese American narrator to his mother, who cannot read. The story also touches on themes Vuong wishes he had seen growing up in Hartford, Connecticut, including queer love in a small town.
Vuong starting walking that road when he was 18 years old and about to travel to New York City for business school, but first came out as gay to his mother. Vuong recalled that he didn't have any visible gay role models growing up as an only child and a Vietnamese American immigrant in Hartford.https://www.instagram.com/p/CAqGc3HhgiL
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