The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston. Her basic cake recipes are still the ones that I turn to.makes me feel seen: I learned to cook from my mom’s 1969 Betty Crocker’s Cookbook, which is so much a product of its era that I put it into my first novel. For starters.that holds the recipe to a favorite dish: Something by a non-white writer, something by a queer writer, and something by a non-American writer.
I seldom cry while reading, but Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell had me sobbing.
They can solve mazes! And avoid obstacles! And form partnerships with other organisms! It’s creepy and fantastic. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw.taught me this Jeopardy!-worthy bit of trivia:Įntangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake changed the way I look at fungi. I don’t know how she does it.I last bought: I never remember who this killer is, even when I’ve read it before, and I always have to stay up to finish because I HAVE TO FIND OUT. On vacations, I will take a giant stack of Agatha Christie novels and read one every day. I’ve re-read the most:įor many years, I used to take The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas with me anytime I traveled. The book that… …helped me through a loss:Īfter my father died suddenly, I needed a distraction-a long one-so I reached for the longest book on our shelf, The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Likes: breakfast tacos, alliums, the iNaturalist app, The Philadelphia Story, Darwin’s coffee shop. Ng wanted to be a poet or paleontologist or astronaut majored in English at Harvard and got her MFA from the University of Michigan worked in textbook publishing, partnered with We Need Diverse Books to fund publishing internship grants makes miniatures (see her creations on her IG including one marking the time she was a NYT crossword puzzle answer) learned to drive on a stick shift VW is handy got an Asian American Girl doll at 15 because representation matters and has had at least two random brushes with celebrity (dropped pen returned by Jon Hamm, elevator ride with Peter Dinklage). Lucy Liu voices the audiobook.īorn in Pittsburgh and raised there and in Shaker Heights, OH (as much a character in Little Fires as Elena and Mia), Ng-a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation-now lives in Cambridge, MA. It’s a theme that threads through her first two novels: Everything I Never Told You (to be adapted as a series) and Little Fires Everywhere (which was a Hulu series with Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington), both NYT bestsellers.
Set in a dystopia where civil liberties are eroding and anti-Asian hate goes unchecked, Celeste Ng’s third novel, Our Missing Hearts (Penguin Press) explores otherness and race.
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