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 ...

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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, ...

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

A title like The Emperor of Gladness conjures images of grandeur, or indeed of a utopian state, writes Conor Hanratty.

There’s not much obvious gladness around in feted young author Ocean Vuong’s second novel, which tackles the treacherous ...

Oprah Winfrey announced “The Emperor of Gladness” by Ocean Vuong as her latest book club selection during Tuesday’s “CBS ...

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

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

In his debut novel, Ocean Vuong took pains to be illegible, then blamed the reader for reading. In his new book, he is ...