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 ...

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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, ...

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

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

NEW YORK (AP) — Author Mo Willems has sold millions of books and won many awards, but the accolade that means most to him is ...

Author Ocean Vuong answered the phone and the last person he expected to be on the other end of the line was Oprah Winfrey.

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

A hugely acclaimed poet, author of the award-winning memoir, Boy Friends, and now debut novelist Michael Pedersen is a ...

The book Vuong is trying to make sense of is The Emperor of Gladness, which, to be fair to its author, is sprawling. It ...