Anthony Bracciante’s Reviews > The Emperor of Gladness > Status Update

This is a strangely compelling novel about 2 broken people that become friends and aid each other. Both are refugees from war, one an 80 year old Lithuanian from WWII and the other a 19 year old Vietnamese who came to America after the war as a child. Many references to the music and drug culture of the 1990s were hard to follow as well as passages in Lithuanian and Vietnamese.