
The instant New York Times bestseller - Oprah's Book Club Pick - Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, USA Today, NPR, People, Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, and Kirkus...

The instant New York Times bestseller - Oprah's Book Club Pick - Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, USA Today, NPR, People, Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, and Kirkus...
Release Date: Jul 14, 2026
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The instant New York Times bestseller - Oprah's Book Club Pick - Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, USA Today, NPR, People, Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, and Kirkus...
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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,...


The instant New York Times bestseller - Oprah's Book Club Pick - A 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction finalist - A TIME Best Book of 2025 Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship,...

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...

A New York Times bestseller - An Oprah's Book Club pick - Selected as one of the Best Books of 2025 by TIME and NPR - Finalist for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence "Extraordinary . . . A moving and resonant portrait of people...

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Korean edition of [The Emperor of Gladness] by Ocean Vuong. The instant New York Times bestseller. Oprah's Book Club Pick. Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. Korean edition...

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.