Celeste Ng on OUR MISSING HEARTS
\u201cHe thinks of himself as a character in a fairy tale in a way who's going on a quest. And there's so many stories like that about a character who's going in search of a lost loved one, whether it's a daughter, a mother, a son, there's this sense of I'm going off to find you. And that's really powerful.\u201d Celeste Ng follows her massive hit\xa0Little Fires Everywhere\xa0with a novel set in a world that \u201clooks like ours, but with the volume kind of turned up to 11\u201d in\xa0Our Missing Hearts, an indelible story about family and identity, art and connection. Celeste joins us on the show to talk about the novel she never planned to write, mothers and sons, coming-of-age (for adults\xa0and\xa0children), Asian American history, pushing against our ideas of hero figures, being a word nerd and her love of Shakespeare, her literary influences and more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer. And we end this episode with TNR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Becky.
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Featured Books (Episode):
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Featured Books (TBR Topoff):
Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
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