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The Emperor of Gladness

By (author) Ocean Vuong

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THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION Ocean Vuong returns with an achingly beautiful novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond that has the power to alter Haiâ€™s relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink. The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which our lives are changed by the most unlikely of people. When Hai takes a job at a diner to support himself and Grazina, his fellow workers become the family he didnâ€™t expect to find. United by desperation and circumstance, and existing on the fringes of society, together they bear witness to each otherâ€™s survival. This is an unforgettable story of unexpected friendship and how far we would go to possess one of lifeâ€™s most fleeting mercies: a second chance. 'A poetic, dramatic and vivid story. It has an epic sweep but it also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality' COLM TÃ“IBÃN 'Tender and moving' REBECCA SOLNIT 'A masterwork' BRYAN WASHINGTON

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