Ocean Vuong was just two when his family fled post-war Vietnam and came to the US. He only learned to read and write English ...

Author Ocean Vuong talks about his new novel, The Emperor of Gladness. It centers on the unlikely friendship between a 19-year-old college dropout and an 82-year-old with dementia.

Ocean Vuong’s dark, poetic novel takes us on a journey through time, loss, trauma, and the little acts of kindness that help ...

We’re only halfway through 2025, but there have already been plenty of standout books published this year. There’s been ...

Seen in a soft light, Ocean Vuong’s life looks like a modern American fairy tale. In 1990, he and his mother came to this country as refugees from Vietnam. They landed in small-town Connecticut ...

Ocean Vuong: I have always been fixated on kindness without power. There's so many people in America who don't have the means to alter each other's lives, the communities that I grew up with ...

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by Ocean Vuong. Share full article. 159. Hours after my mother took her last breath on earth, after I heard a scream that must have come from my mouth, ...

Ocean Vuong’s magnificent and melancholy second novel, “The Emperor of Gladness,” is both ode and reproach. It pays tribute to the human ability to act with kindness toward others even when ...

Ocean Vuong’s longtime partner is Peter Bienkowski, a former lawyer he met during a brief eight-week stint at business school, as he revealed in a 2017 interview with The Guardian.

But Vuong, named for the largest body of water there is, has been soaring. In an era when readers need to be gently coaxed to read poetry, his is widely heralded.His first novel, “On Earth We ...