Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong Elizabeth Earnshaw This Side of Paradise is

This Side of Paradise is a tragic story of unrealized potential in a young man willing to meet the world head-on without ever looking at himself

imaginative and easy-to-follow plant-based recipes

intergenerational friendship

Dylan Monroe has always lived an unconventional life

the scones are fresh

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong Elizabeth Earnshaw This Side of Paradise isWINNER of the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizeA New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016"There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuong's sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Library Journal 2016 Best Books of the Year WINNER, 2016 Whiting AwardWINNER, 2017 Publishing