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Literary Fiction · 2016 · PG-13

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

by Ocean Vuong

Vuong's debut poetry collection — Vietnamese-American, queer, luminous.

Winner of the 2016 Whiting Award One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2016" One of Lit Hub's "10 must-read poetry collections for April" “Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck. His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.”—The New Yorker "Night Sky with Exit Wounds establishes Vuong as a fierce new talent to be reckoned with...This book

For14+GenreLiterary FictionLength88 pagesRead time~2.5 hours

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Violence

Some

War imagery; violence of history

Language

Barely any

Mild language

Sexual Content

Some

Gay sexuality and desire; intimate but not explicit

Substance Use

Barely any

Brief drug references

Emotional Intensity

Some

Themes of migration, war, desire, and the beauty of difficult things

What this book is about

Vuong's 2016 debut poetry collection explores the Vietnam War, his immigrant childhood, queerness, and desire. Features gay sexual content and war imagery. For older teens and adults.

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Gay sexual content

War imagery

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