On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Lili Wilkinson ” in the Bangor Daily

” in the Bangor Daily News

with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair

until Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are

she turned to face who she really was

Trees wither at the roots

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Lili Wilkinson ” in the Bangor DailyOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a