Oprah’s newest guide membership choose—it’s 114th choice—is Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness. The award-winning poet-turned-novelist’s latest guide simply got here out this week, and follows “the cycles of history, memory and time.”
In it, 19-year-old Hai stands atop a bridge one summer season night, prepared to leap, when dementia-stricken aged widow Grazina talks him into happening one other path. So begins the pair’s journey collectively, which entails Hai turning into Grazina’s caretaker and him reckoning with himself and his place in his neighborhood. Zooming out, we see what it means to reside within the margins in America, and the way loneliness, love, and labor are foundational to this society.
“Ocean Vuong’s ability to […] take characters that have ordinary lives and give extraordinary meaning to those lives makes us each think of our lives differently. He is a brilliant writer, a poet and a master of words.” — Oprah
For extra details about the guide membership and the newest choose—and for an excerpt!—go to Oprah.com.
