The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong

The Emperor of Gladness

Ocean Vuong

416 pages • paperback • 2025

17 editions

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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The hardest thing in the world is to live only once…One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout...

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