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Autofiction is an emerging literary form that incorporates autobiographical writing into fiction. Practitioners of autofiction emphasize the autobiographical aspects of their work by patterning their protagonists' lives after their own, typically naming their protagonists after themselves. Autofiction usually borrows formal elements from autobiographical writing too, including its first person point of view and its use of a narrative voice so forthright that it borders on confessional. Ocean Vuong's 2019 novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a representative work of autofiction, one that erases the distinction that fiction typically observes between authors and the characters they create.

Which statement, if true, would most strongly support the text's description of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous?

The novel portrays the upbringing of the protagonist, a young writer, in a working-class Vietnamese American family that is virtually identical to Vuong's family, and the protagonist narrates the novel in a tone that many reviewers describe as surprisingly frank.

Although the narrative of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous proceeds in a largely chronological fashion, as narratives do in most works of fiction, the form of Vuong's narrative is unique: the novel consists of a single long letter that the protagonist, a soft-spoken young man, has written to his mother.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous makes use of imagery in much the same way that contemporary poetry does, exploiting certain images-butterflies, for example-for their emotional or conceptual associations; in this way, Vuong blurs the distinction between poetry and fiction.

The novel's protagonist bears an obvious resemblance to Vuong himself, and in interviews Vuong speaks of the protagonist as a sort of alter ego, but the protagonist refers to himself as "Little Dog" throughout the novel and never divulges his actual name.