He’s a writer who mines his own history to look deeply at broader currents of working-class American life. In his new novel, Ocean Vuong crafts a narrative that weaves together themes of grief, ...

Oprah Winfrey stopped by "CBS Mornings" on Tuesday to reveal her latest book club selection, "The Emperor of Gladness" by Ocean Vuong. It is an epic story about love and loneliness, following an ...

Ocean Vuong's sweeping new novel centers on a depressed 19-year-old college dropout who becomes the caregiver to a widow with dementia. Follow the [train] tracks till they fork off and sink into a ...

Ocean Vuong’s new novel, “The Emperor of Gladness” (Penguin Press) is moving on a number of levels. It has characters you think about when you’re away from them. The writing is exemplary. New England ...

Hi @here, welcome to another month of Bazaar Book Chat! This June we read The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong. The book follows the life of Hai, a 20-year-old who lives in a Connecticut town called ...

In his new novel, "The Emperor Of Gladness," Ocean Vuong describes characters who work together in a Connecticut fast food restaurant as people bound by nothing but toil in a tiny kitchen... OCEAN ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is a new novel from Ocean Vuong, one of the country’s most admired young writers. Winfrey announced Tuesday that she has chosen Vuong’s “The ...

In a moving new narrative, Ocean Vuong redefines what it means to write an American novel. The follow-up to his first prose endeavor – the heralded 2019 novel “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” – “The ...

Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of ...

Ocean Vuong's 2019 debut novel, "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous," was one of those novels that made me silently pledge, "I'll follow you anywhere, whatever you write." And, so I have into Vuong's ...

Follow the [train] tracks till they fork off and sink into a path of trampled weeds leading to a junkyard packed with school buses in various stages of amnesia, ... Furred with ivy, their dented hoods ...