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From The New York Times, this is The Interview.
I'm David Marchese.
In a lot of ways, Ocean Vuong's life makes for a classic American success story.
He and his mother came to this country as refugees from Vietnam in 1990,
when he was just a small child.
They landed in Hartford, Connecticut,
and pretty quickly fell into a hardscrabble existence ruled by low-paying work and low expectations.
Until, that is, Ocean discovered literature and his own gift for writing.
Vuong is now one of the country's most esteemed poets, winner of a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship,
also known as a Genius Grant,
and he's a professor in the creative writing department at New York University.
His debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous,
came out in 2019 and became a bestseller and a bona fide millennial classic.
All this, and he's still only 36 years old.
But there's another side to Vuong's story.
And that's about the flip side of success and the lingering pain of his mixed-up youth.
It's that part of his story, the one that doesn't resolve so neatly,