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 ...

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

Ocean Vuong first made his name as a poet. His debut full-length collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016), was widely acclaimed, earning him the TS Eliot Prize, of which he is the youngest ever ...

Ocean Vuong’s new novel, “The Emperor of Gladness” is moving on a number of levels. It has characters you think about when you’re away from them. The writing is exemplary. Vuong has written a big, ...

Ocean Vuong’s new novel follows Hai as he takes care of Grazina and works in a fast-casual restaurant to help support them. Told in moments, “The Emperor of Gladness” takes existentialism to ...

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 keep each other company in exchange for his help as a kind of unofficial ...

Book Review: Ocean Vuong Takes Existentialism to Deeply Intimate Level in 'The Emperor of Gladness' Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. So when she strikes a deal ...