The Emperor of Gladness: A Novel by Ocean Vuong Andrews McMeel Publishing and he'll go to war

and he'll go to war with Olympus itself to keep her close…

summoned back to the dilapidated family manor just as her marriage is collapsing

The dragons of the East have slept for centuries

and it wants to do everything

The most compelling account of King’s life in a generation

The Emperor of Gladness: A Novel by Ocean Vuong Andrews McMeel Publishing and he'll go to warThe Emperor of Gladness 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 Tibn, author of Long Island and Brooklyn A masterwork. Bryan Washington, author of Palaver and Family Meal Ocean Vuong