![]() ![]() White supremacist groups came out of hiding.Īlmost unintentionally, her fledgling novel began incorporating and spinning forward "the really dark things that were rising up," she said. "I had written about mothers and daughters, and I wanted to try writing about a mother and a son." "In my mind then, it was a pretty conventional mother-son story," she said during a Zoom call from her home in Cambridge, Mass., where the novel is set. When she started the novel in the fall of 2016, the characters came first, Ng said. ![]() But it's also an intimate story about a boy and his mother. "Our Missing Hearts," out this month, is a sweeping thriller about the dangers of racism and authoritarianism. The 42-year-old author is known for page-turners - including the blockbuster "Little Fires Everywhere" - that tease apart the knotty family dynamics at the heart of their central mysteries. "It feels like where we might be in 10 minutes." "It feels less and less like a dystopia to me," Ng said ahead of her Talking Volumes appearance in St. That's how she used to think about the dark world she was crafting in her new novel, "Our Missing Hearts."Īnd the setting in Ng's book - an alternate version of the United States, where Asian Americans are scapegoated and beaten, where books are banned and pulped - became less imagined and more imminent. Celeste Ng wishes she could call it a dystopia. ![]()
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