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 ...

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

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, ...

The Emperor of Gladness, like its predecessor, explores what Vuong has called in a recent interview, "the loneliness of class movement." Sprawling where its predecessor was compact, The Emperor of ...

This is one vision of a "found family" that Vuong presents in The Emperor of Gladness and its miraculous lack of sentimentality surely owes something to the fact that he lived a similar story himself.