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" ...

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

Ocean Vuong’s magnificent and melancholy second novel, “The Emperor of Gladness,” is both ode and reproach. It pays tribute to the human ability to act with kindness toward others even when ...

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

Author Ocean Vuong has been breaking boundaries in the literary world with his words and style, something many say is unlike ...

Between his two indelible poetry collections — Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016) and Time is a Mother (2022) — the Vietnamese American writer Ocean ... Vuong’s second novel The Emperor of ...

Before Ocean Vuong became the notable name in literature ... that Vuong found inspiration for his latest novel The Emperor of Gladness, which is a coming of age story about Hai, a 19-year-old ...