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Interview with Celeste Ng

Interview with Celeste Ng September, 2017 Author  Celeste Ng 's 2014 debut,  Everything I Never Told You , was a  New York Times bestseller and named a best book of the year by more than a dozen outlets, including NPR, Buzzfeed, and Amazon.  Her second novel,  Little Fires Everywhere , is about the affluent Richardson family in Shaker Heights, Ohio (Ng's hometown). When Mia, a nomadic photographer, and her teenage daughter, Pearl, move into the Richardsons' rental property, they become entangled in the Richardsons' lives in irreversible ways.  Ng talked to Goodreads about teen drama, race, Twitter, and the fear of writing about a place you love.  Want to Read Goodreads:  Both of your books feature teenagers as main characters. The Richardson family has four teenage siblings, each of whom develops a relationship with Pearl, so there are an exponential number of interpersonal dynamics—sort of a web of teen angst. Was that a challenge you we...