{"title":"Ocean Vuong","description":"Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds and the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the 2019 MacArthur \"Genius\" Grant, he is also the winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.","products":[{"product_id":"the-emperor-of-gladness-oprahs-book-club-hardcover","title":"The Emperor of Gladness: Oprah's Book Club - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Emperor of Gladness\u003c\/i\u003e is a poetic, dramatic and vivid story. Epic in its sweep, the novel also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality. Hai and Grazina are taken from the margins of American life by Ocean Vuong and, by dint of great sympathy and imaginative genius, placed at the very center of our world.\" --Colm T?ib?n, author of\u003ci\u003e Long Island \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A masterwork.\" --Bryan Washington, author of \u003ci\u003ePalaver\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFamily Meal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOcean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne 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's relationship to himself, his family, and a community on the brink. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing the cycles of history, memory, and time, \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor of Gladness \u003c\/i\u003eshows 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's writing--formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness--are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life's most fleeting mercies: a second chance.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101152350431,"sku":"9780593831878","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/QfRd8apWWq9780593831878.webp?v=1781068361"},{"product_id":"on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous-paperback","title":"On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller \u003cb\u003e- Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A lyrical work of self-discovery that's shockingly intimate and insistently universa\u003c\/b\u003el...N\u003cb\u003eot so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.\" --Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOcean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous\u003c\/i\u003e is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born -- a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam -- and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, \u003ci\u003eOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous\u003c\/i\u003e is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. 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