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

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" ...

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 ...

Ocean Vuong’s longtime partner is a former lawyer he met during a brief eight-week stint at business school. Learn all about ...

Ocean Vuong’s 2019 debut ... 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 ...

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 ...

A depressed Vietnamese American teenager becomes the unlikely caretaker for an elderly woman with dementia in Vuong’s second novel. 12 min listen For the best audio experience, scan the code ...

The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong’s second novel, begins with an exhortation to observe. Look, it says: in the fictional town of East Gladness, in Connecticut, lawns are overgrown, roadkill is ...