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Book Review: Ocean Vuong takes existentialism to deeply intimate level in 'The Emperor of Gladness'

Posted 5/19/25

Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. She strikes a deal to house him in exchange for his help as a kind of  live-in nurse. Ocean Vuong’s new novel follows Hai as …

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