![]() ![]() ![]() Ng began writing Our Missing Hearts in 2016 as a conventional exploration of the relationship between an artist mother and her child, she told Varno. It is one in a suite of themes Ng is drawn toward in her works-along with the impact of discrimination, the nature of justice, the legacies between generations, and the power of storytelling. Surveillance is a running theme in the wrenching experiences of a mixed-race family in Ng's 2015 debut novel, Everything I Never Told You in her 2017 novel exploring the tensions of art and the nature of motherhood, Little Fires Everywhere and in her forthcoming book, Our Missing Hearts (Penguin Press, Oct.). ![]() “It does something strange to you, almost on a molecular level, of feeling like you have to be looking over your shoulder all the time.” “You have a sense of being on display, of being watched,” she said in a keynote conversation with PW fiction reviews editor David Varno, presented Wednesday at the U.S. ![]() Growing up in Pittsburgh and Shaker Heights as the child of Chinese-born scientists, she was often the only East Asian-American child in any room. Long before Celeste Ng became a bestselling, prizewinning novelist, people kept an eye on her-for her face. ![]()
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