Linda Nathan recommends On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

By Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press, 2019).

Although I’m no longer a school practitioner (I taught and served as a principal for almost 40 years), I still think like one. When I worked in high schools, my favorite part of the day was when I visited the library to see what students were reading and what books the librarian had selected for display. We had a building-wide book club where we (students, faculty and staff, and sometimes parents) would recommend books. I loved seeing who suggested what titles. Even now, when I read a novel, I think, “Is this something my students would like?” or “Is this a book I should recommend to a teacher or the librarian?”