Ocean Vuong
15 highlights · last read June 2026
Highlights I wrote a note on are shown in full. The other 15 are scrambled: the words are the author's, so here you only see where in the book I underlined something.
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Location 6
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Location 7
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Location 48
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Location 55
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Location 63
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Location 65
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Location 74
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Location 88
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Location 91
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Location 100
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Location 109
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Location 118
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Location 132
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Location 134