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The Emperor of Gladness: A Novel
Ocean Vuong
Hardback: Penguin Press, 2025
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“The Emperor of Gladness is a truly great novel about work—still an under-acknowledged topic in American fiction. Hard work is supposed to get you somewhere—that’s part of the promise of America. But the pay-off feels much less certain to these characters . . . Vuong’s achingly austere artistic vision leaves it to his readers to imagine the better world he won’t let himself depict on the pages of this wonderful novel.”
—Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
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