On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

There are parts of this book that are described uniquely and beautifully; there are other parts that drone on with abstract metaphors for pages at a time. A particular part I found beautiful was the chapter on the word sorry. The author explains how the word is used to humble oneself before the person(s) you are speaking to or servicing. The word has multiple meanings and becomes a language of its own. I also loved the part where the main character describes the first time he viewed himself as beautiful and how life altering that moment was. Perhaps it is because this book reads like a memoir, that my enthusiasm waned as I read through it. I have never had the necessity nor the desire to pluralize buffalo before this book and I definitely had to look it up to verify that it is spelled as: buffaloes.