“On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous” is an epistolary novel written by a gay, twenty-something-year-old son to his immigrant mother. ... On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous We Need to Talk About Kevin
"I’ll have to learn a new narrator," he joked, though his eyes didn't match the tone.
Unbreakable Bonds and Dark Shadows: Mother-Son Relationships in Cinema and Literature
Leo, a graduate student specializing in 19th-century epistolary novels, lived in the world of the written word. He spoke in the careful, measured cadences of someone who lived primarily in his own head. To him, his mother was both his greatest anchor and his most complex text—a story he was constantly trying to annotate but could never quite finish.
Leo, being a boy, believed her. For a while.