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Ocean Vuong's 2019 novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is regularly described as autobiographical. That characterization is apt—there are many parallels between the experiences of the novel's character of Little Dog and those of Vuong—but it should not be taken to mean that all the people and events depicted in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous are based on actual people and events. The novel is largely pure invention, and readers who neglect this fact and instead try to identify more and more real-life analogues thus risk _____