
The instant New York Times bestseller - Oprah's Book Club Pick - A 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction finalist Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order...
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The instant New York Times bestseller - Oprah's Book Club Pick - A 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction finalist Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order...


A bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive 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...
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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,...
Release Date: Nov 4, 2025

With this book, he may well have entered the rarefied company of the great contemporary novelists." The hardest thing in life is knowing you only get one.