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Ocean Vuong began writing The Emperor of Gladness as a way to process his grief after losing his mother to cancer in 2019. The book was published in 2025 by Penguin Press. Set in the fictional town of East Gladness, Connecticut, the novel follows...

The Slave was a novel written by Polish author Isaac Bashevis Singer and was published in 1962. Singer was born in 1902 and died in 1991. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature sixteen years after the novel was published.

The Slave talks about a...