Ocean Vuong, a Vietnamese refugee who grew up in Connecticut, set his latest novel in the state, penning a poetic tale about refugees barely keeping their heads above water.

Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. She strikes a deal to house him in exchange for his help as a kind of live-in nurse.

In economically depressed East Gladness, Connecticut, 19-year-old Hai, a suicidal college dropout, is talked off the ledge of ...

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Vuong’s second foray into fiction represents a stylistic departure from his debut, more traditional in its structure and ...

Oprah Winfrey revealed "The Emperor of Gladness" by Ocean Vuong as her latest book club selection on "CBS Mornings" on May 13 ...

Now, with the release of his second novel, “The Emperor of Gladness,” Vuong raised a whole town from the realm of memory. The ...

In a moving new narrative, Ocean Vuong redefines what it means to write an American novel. The follow-up to his first prose ...

Vuong's new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is the first he's written, from start to finish, since his mother died in 2019.

And, if we may be so bold, one of those priorities really should be to dig into one of the many great new books that have ...

“The Emperor of Gladness” (out now from Penguin Random House) is the Oprah book club pick for May. It’s Vuong’s second novel, having previously published “On Earth We’re Briefly ...

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