The Emperor of Gladness

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THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION, Ocean Vuong returns with an achingly beautiful novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive ‘A poetic, dramatic and vivid story. It has an epic sweep but it also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality’ COLM TÓIBÍN. 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 across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path.