New book club alert! Join Coffee & Conversation: A Mid-day New Releases Book Club for their very first meeting on Monday, December 7th at 1pm. They will be discussing The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong. All are welcome!
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“A sprawling tale of self-discovery and chosen family, The Emperor of Gladness is a deeply sympathetic look at a disenfranchised young man learning how to care for himself and others.” —TIME, A Must-Read Book of the Year
“Vuong’s protagonist, Hai, is a drug-addicted college dropout living in the fictional town of East Gladness, Connecticut. After he forms an unlikely bond with an elderly widow from Lithuania, whose house he moves into, he begins working at a fast-food restaurant, HomeMarket, where all of the employees are, like him, searching for some kind of home. The novel brims with feeling for these figures, who, though scorned by society, belong to it nonetheless.” —The New Yorker