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Ruby Grinter is a bookseller at Readings Carlton.
Ocean Vuong’s newest novel, The Emperor of Gladness, opens on a struggling young man, Hai, standing on a bridge in desolate East Gladness, Connecticut, bracing himself to jump. A voice calls to him – an elderly, dementia-ridden Grazina, who…