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The Emperor of Gladness

By (author) Ocean Vuong

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER â€˜Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental, and savagely comic' Guardian â€˜Some of the most beautiful writing Iâ€™ve experienced in my lifetimeâ€™ Oprah Winfrey READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS: â€˜Read it slowly. Let it wreck you. Then read it againâ€™ â€˜I feel like I lost part of my soul to this bookâ€™ â€˜I would give it 6 stars if I couldâ€™ â€˜Sad and funny, devastating and quietly celebratoryâ€™ â€˜A masterwork of compassion and complexityâ€™ College dropout Hai doesnâ€™t know how to face the future until a chance meeting with elderly widow Grazina changes his life. One summer evening in the 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. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond. 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 people go to find a second chance. 'The first millennial Great American Novelâ€™ ArtReview â€˜His most vivid, ambitious work yetâ€™ Dazed â€˜This stunning book moved me so muchâ€™ CAITRÃONA BALFE 'A poetic, dramatic and vivid storyâ€™ COLM TÃ“IBÃN