government’s removing children from the custody of their immigrant, asylum-seeking parents at the southern border, and the dramatic rise in violence against Asian Americans in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Courtesy Kieran Kesner and Penguin Press)Īs any student of recent history will recall, those included the U.S. The story shifted as I wrestled with questions raised by the reckonings taking place-or being avoided.” Local author Celeste Ng's latest novel, “Our Missing Hearts,” is available Oct. But as I wrote, the world began to shake along long-ignored fault lines, and the last few years have felt particularly cataclysmic. “In mid-2016, after I finished drafting ‘Little Fires Everywhere,’ I started what I thought was a fairly traditional novel about a mother and her adolescent son. Celeste Ng, the Cambridge-based author of “Everything I Never Told You” and “Little Fires Everywhere,” acknowledges as much in the letter to her readers at the start of her newest novel, “ Our Missing Hearts” (out Oct. More than ever, the challenge today in writing dystopian fiction is that in the lag between when the manuscript is submitted and the book is published, chances are disturbingly good that the reality will have surpassed anything the author imagined.
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