Celeste Ng
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Celeste Ng was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She attended Harvard University and studied English. She went on to graduate school at the University of Michigan and earned her Master's of Fine Arts in writing. While attending the University of Michigan, Ng won visa mer the Hopwood Award for her short story, What Passes Over. Ng was a recipient of a Pushcart Prize in 2012 for her story Girls, At Play. Her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You: A Novel, is a literary thriller that focuses on an American family in 1970s Ohio. This book won Amazon book of the Year in 2014. Little Fires Everywhere is her second novel, published in September 2017. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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(eng) The novelist is also the author of Let's Go Western Europe 2002, a travel series written by Harvard students.
Foto taget av: 2018 National Book Festival By Avery Jensen - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72705538
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Girls, At Play 5 exemplar
Clearing the Bones 2 exemplar
Every Little Thing 2 exemplar
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- 1980
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- USA
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA - Utbildning
- Harvard University (BA ∙ MFA)
University of Michigan (MFA) - Kort biografi
- Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. Her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, won the Hopwood Award, the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and the ALA's Alex Award and is a 2016 NEA fellow. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. To learn more about her and her work, visit her website at http://celesteng.com or follow her on Twitter: @pronounced_ing.
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- The novelist is also the author of Let's Go Western Europe 2002, a travel series written by Harvard students.
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This book is about a Chinese-American family in Ohio who found out their daughter is dead. They spend the story unraveling different stories from each family member’s perspective to piece together why she died. They face adversity and hardships that bring them further apart as a family. But each member learns they can’t go through these times alone.
I like how throughout the book, every chapter was told through a different family member's perspective. This gave me a little backstory that I can piece together as I continue reading. Towards the end, you remember little details of another person that helps the story come together. Also in the book, the story changes timelines. So at the beginning, it is the present day, then it skips back to a couple of months ago, then to the parents when they first met, and then back to the present day. It may be confusing at times but it really helps you understand the actions the family members take and why. If you like to piece together different perspectives into the same story, this book is for you.
I think the theme of the story is based on identity and acceptance. Throughout the story, Lydia’s death makes each of the family members search for answers, about themselves and others. Some of them lose who they truly are by grief, hatred, and others. The ultimate goal, as a Chinese-American family, is to be accepted, whether in school, the community, in the family. They face many adversities that change who they are and who they want to be. The family tries to unravel all the mysteries by themself, when they just need to come together and realize that they are still a family, even without the glue that holds them together, Lydia.
I recommend this novel because of how impactful and meaningful every action is, although it may be hard to connect the storyline at times, so if you like problem-solving, mature, and powerful identity books, this may be for you.… (mer)