If you aim for Gladness and miss, you’ll find us. For we are called East Gladness. Gladness itself being no more, renamed to ...

Ocean Vuong’s dark, poetic novel takes us on a journey through time, loss, trauma, and the little acts of kindness that help us heal ...

This June we read The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong. The book follows the life of Hai, a 20-year-old who lives in a Connecticut town called East Gladness.

Hi @here, welcome to another month of Bazaar Book Chat! This June we read The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong. The book follows the life of Hai, a 20-year-old who lives in a Connecticut town called ...

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Ocean Vuong was just two when his family fled post-war Vietnam and came to the US. He only learned to read and write English at age 11—the first in hi ...

The relevance of the author was challenged (replaced by the critic), as was the text (replaced by theory). The novel as story ...

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