On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
A son writes to the mother who cannot read him: war, migration, first love, and loss in one Vietnamese American family in Hartford.
3,113-word summary · 14 min read
lgbtq + literary fiction
4 books tagged both “lgbtq” and “literary fiction”.
Call Me by Your Name
One summer on the Italian Riviera: seventeen-year-old Elio and grad student Oliver circle each other through swims, talks, and missed chances.
2,627-word summary · 12 min read
A Little Life
Four friends in New York orbit Jude, whose hidden past of abuse shapes every page of this 720-page epic.
1,972-word summary · 9 min read
The Song of Achilles
Song of Achilles retold: Patroclus and Achilles from boys to Troy, love and war in Miller prose.
1,925-word summary · 9 min read