{"id":57051,"date":"2025-05-16T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=57051"},"modified":"2025-05-13T17:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T22:13:43","slug":"oprahs-latest-book-club-pick-the-emperor-of-gladness-by-ocean-vuong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/oprahs-latest-book-club-pick-the-emperor-of-gladness-by-ocean-vuong\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah’s Latest Book Club Pick: The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join\u00a0Bestsellers Club<\/a> to have certain celebrity book club picks automatically put on hold for you: Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, and Oprah Winfrey. While Reese and Jenna generally announce a new title each month, Oprah\u2019s selections are more sporadic. Reminder that if you join Bestsellers Club<\/a>, you can choose to have these titles automatically put on hold for you.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Oprah Winfrey\u2019s latest selection is\u00a0The Emperor of Gladness<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Ocean Vuong.<\/p>\n

Curious what\u00a0The Emperor of Gladness<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

The hardest thing in the world is to live only once\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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 transform Hai\u2019s relationship to himself, his family, and a community on the brink.<\/em><\/p>\n

Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Ocean Vuong\u2019s writing\u2014formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness\u2014are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life\u2019s most fleeting mercies: a second chance.<\/em> – Penguin Press<\/p>\n

This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n

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Join\u00a0Bestsellers Club<\/a>\u00a0to have Oprah, Jenna, and Reese\u2019s adult selections automatically put on hold for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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