The Emperor of Gladness Iñupiaq She grips language like a

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

Editor Heid E

author of The Good Berry Cookbook: Harvesting and Cooking Wild Rice and Other Wild Foods

and we must continue to honor these obligations and allow our Native citizens to improve their lives

With a new afterword by the authors

The Emperor of Gladness Iñupiaq She grips language like aOcean 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