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1 THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS (Penguin Press, $30). By Ocean Vuong. A transformative friendship develops between an elderly widow ...

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This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Emperor Of Gladness by Ocean Vuong and Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth.

NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is a new novel from Ocean Vuong. Winfrey announced she has chosen Vuong’s “The Emperor of Gladness.” The ...

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

Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. So when she strikes a deal to house him so they can ...

Author Ocean Vuong answered the phone and the last person he expected to be on the other end of the line was Oprah Winfrey.

He’s a writer who mines his own history to look deeply at broader currents of working-class American life. In his new novel, ...

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