August 5, 2014
Novelist Celeste Ng plunges readers into the depths of a family tragedyShare
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Cathy Wurzer - Host, Euan Kerr - Reporter, Celest Ng - Interviewee
MPR’s Euan Kerr profiles American writer and novelist Celeste Ng and her novel, Everything I Never Told You. The book explores the misery of losing a child, while also using uses the story to examine the challenges of a mixed family in the Midwest during the 1970s, a time when interracial marriages and their offspring made attracted unwelcome and sometimes hostile attention.
In writing the book, Ng, 33, began drawing on her own background as an Asian American who grew up in Pittsburgh and in the Shaker Heights, Ohio.
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