Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. She strikes a deal to house him in exchange for his ...

Ocean Vuong's sweeping new novel centers on a depressed 19-year-old college dropout who becomes the caregiver to a widow with ...

He’s a writer who mines his own history to look deeply at broader currents of working-class American life. In his new novel, ...

Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is a new novel from Ocean Vuong, one of the country’s most admired young writers.

Oprah Winfrey's new pick for her book club is a buzzy new novel from a poet. Here's why she chose "The Emperor of Gladness" ...

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Ocean Vuong’s new novel, “The Emperor of Gladness” is moving on a number of levels. It has characters you think about when you’re away from them. The writing is exemplary. Vuong has written a big, ...

Oprah Winfrey stopped by "CBS Mornings" on Tuesday to reveal her latest book club selection, "The Emperor of Gladness" by Ocean Vuong. It is an epic story about love and loneliness, following an ...

Vuong recounts immigrant life and the love, labor and loneliness that living on the fringes of American society often entails ...

A title like The Emperor of Gladness conjures images of grandeur, or indeed of a utopian state, writes Conor Hanratty. In fact, Ocean Vuong's new novel is set in East Gladness, a fictionalised ...

and this time it’s the highly anticipated new release from poet and novelist Ocean Vuong. “The Emperor of Gladness” (out now from Penguin Random House) is the Oprah book club pick for May.

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