But it's another type of "found family" that this novel even more deeply ... strawberry Starbursts Russia was always sucking on. The Emperor of Gladness is a truly great novel about work ...

Senior Arts Correspondent Jeffrey Brown sat down with Vuong to discuss "The Emperor of Gladness" for ... A lot of this country is founded on the nuclear family. And one alternative to that ...

This is one vision of a "found family" that Vuong presents in The Emperor of Gladness and its miraculous lack of sentimentality surely owes something to the fact that he lived a similar story himself.