The Emperor of Gladness Iñupiaq author of The Good Berry

author of The Good Berry Cookbook: Harvesting and Cooking Wild Rice and Other Wild Foods

in one man's struggles

and climb mountains so tall it's as if they could touch the bright blue sky

Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons

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The Emperor of Gladness Iñupiaq author of The Good BerryOcean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. The hardest thing in the world is to live only once 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