The Emperor of Gladness Iñupiaq Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo

Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid

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

With a new afterword by the authors

in one man's struggles

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The Emperor of Gladness Iñupiaq Three-term poet laureate Joy HarjoOcean 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