Scars Of War - Tumblr Posts

-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Currently reading On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and when I read this part where Ocean talk about his mother, Rose living with a war inside her I was immediately reminded of Ari when he talks about how war affected his dad, Jamie in AADDTSOTU. How both of the parents were had a war long ended still living inside of them, haunting them and their sons living with the pain of their parents wounds, watching them hurt and not knowing how to make it right. How it was Vietnam War for both of the stories, one real and one fictional. It's haunting and heart breaking. The things war does to people and their loved ones.