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

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 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, ...

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A college dropout becomes caretaker to a Lithuanian widow in Ocean Vuong’s florid new novel, which seeks to find the dignity ...

The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong. This is the story of Hai, a Vietnamese immigrant to America where he lives in the ...

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

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After so much posturing, Vuong’s new book, The Emperor of Gladness, is a welcome surprise. It is a sweet, charming, conventional novel whose ambition does not outstrip its ability. The young Hai ...

Vietnamese American novelist and poet Ocean Vuong builds moments of tenderness and heartache that flow among his characters ...

In his new novel, "The Emperor Of Gladness," Ocean Vuong describes characters who work together in a Connecticut fast food restaurant as people bound by nothing but toil in a tiny kitchen... OCEAN ...

Winfrey announced Tuesday that she has chosen Vuong’s “The Emperor of Gladness,” in which the Vietnamese American author tells of the bond between a suicidal teen and an elderly widow with ...