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SUMMARY:Solidarity Stories: Community Led Book Discussion - "On Earth We'r
 e Briefly Gorgeous"
LOCATION:Administrative Offices\n<p>Limited parking is available via the g
 arage on 39th Street and Rhode Island Avenue and additional parking can be
  found across the street in the lot next to the Bunker Hill Fire Station. 
 Parking is free for program participants and no purchase is required\, but
  participants are welcome to order snacks\, drinks\, or dinner from Mixt&r
 squo\;s vendors. For more information\, visit their website: https://mixtf
 oodhall.com.</p>
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 lable via the garage on 39th Street and Rhode Island Avenue and additional
  parking can be found across the street in the lot next to the Bunker Hill
  Fire Station. Parking is free for program participants and no purchase is
  required\, but participants are welcome to order snacks\, drinks\, or din
 ner from Mixt&rsquo\;s vendors. For more information\, visit their website
 : https://mixtfoodhall.com.</p>;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Administrative O
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DESCRIPTION:Join the Mount Rainier Branch Library and Prince Georgeâ€
 ™s County Office of Human Rights for our monthly book club!  This month 
 we discuss "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous\," by Ocean Vuong.\n.\nhttps:/
 /pgcmls.libnet.info/event/13534814
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><img src="https://static.libnet.info/front
 end-images/editor/pgcmls/OnEarthWereBrieflyGorgeous.jpg" width="291" heigh
 t="445" alt="" style="display: block\; margin-left: auto\; margin-right: a
 uto\;" /></p>\n<p>On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son t
 o 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 befo
 re he was born &mdash\; a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam &md
 ash\; 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 witnes
 s to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son\,
  it is also a brutally honest exploration of race\, class\, and masculinit
 y. Asking questions central to our American moment\, immersed as we are in
  addiction\, violence\, and trauma\, but undergirded by compassion and ten
 derness\, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of te
 lling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being
  heard. With stunning urgency and grace\, Ocean Vuong writes of people cau
 ght between disparate worlds\, and asks how we heal and rescue one another
  without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive\, and how to
  make of it a kind of joy\, powers the most important debut novel of many 
 years.</p>\n<p>&mdash\;From Catalog.</p>\n<hr />\n<p>Borrow the book from 
 PGCMLS:&nbsp\;<a href="https://catalog.pgcmls.info/polaris/search/title.as
 px?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&amp\;pos=1&amp\;cn=1095637">Print</a>&nbsp\;|<a href="
 https://catalog.pgcmls.info/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&amp
 \;pos=7&amp\;cn=1608034"></a>&nbsp\;<a href="https://catalog.pgcmls.info/p
 olaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&amp\;pos=2&amp\;cn=1124180">Larg
 e Print</a> | <a href="https://catalog.pgcmls.info/polaris/search/title.as
 px?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&amp\;pos=3&amp\;cn=1100302">Eaudiobook</a> | <a href="
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 \;pos=4&amp\;cn=1096905">Ebook</a></p>\n<p>Solidarity Stories: Community L
 ed Book Discussion takes place on the 3rd Tuesday of each month in the ups
 tairs lounge area of miXt Food Hall in Brentwood\, MD. Limited parking is 
 available via the garage on 39th St &amp\; Rhode Island Ave. Parking is fr
 ee for program participants and no purchase is required\, but participants
  are welcome to order snacks\, drinks\, or dinner from miXt&rsquo\;s vendo
 rs. For more information\, visit their website: <a href="https://mixtfoodh
 all.com">https://mixtfoodhall.com</a></p>\nhttps://pgcmls.libnet.info/even
 t/13534814
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