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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...

Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, was written after Hosseini traveled back to his native Afghanistan to examine for himself the nation’s situation in the aftermath of decades of turmoil. In early 2007, Hosseini told Time...