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The emperor of gladness : a novel
Published 2025 by Penguin Press, New York
ISBN 9780593831878
Bib Id 1492825
Description 397 pages ; 25 cm.
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cam a22 i 4500
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2024022675
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9780593831878 (hardcover) $30.00
059383187X
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FIC Vuong
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The emperor of gladness : a novel
Publication Information
2025 by Penguin Press, New York :
Description
397 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
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. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hai's relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink.
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"Oprah's book club 2025" -- Cover.
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Psychological fiction.
Queer fiction.
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Queer fiction.
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