The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong

THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS: ‘Read it slowly. Let it wreck you. Then read it again’ ‘I feel like I lost part of my soul to this book… a contender for my favourite of the year’ ‘I would give it 6 stars if I could’ ‘Sad and funny, devastating and quietly celebratory’ ‘A masterwork of compassion and complexity. A book to sit with, to feel deeply, and to return to’ College dropout Hai doesn’t know how to face the future until a chance meeting with elderly widow Grazina changes his life, in this achingly beautiful novel about chosen family and second chances One summer evening in the town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The