The Emperor of Gladness Iñupiaq In her forties Harness decided

In her forties Harness decided to get serious about finding answers when

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

With a new afterword by the authors

Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid

She grips language like a fistful of wet guts and inks the page red--for desire

The Emperor of Gladness Iñupiaq In her forties Harness decidedOcean 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