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Celeste Ng’s newest novel maintains hope in a world that “feels like it’s totally falling apart”Everything I Never Told You, which was adapted into a miniseries on Hulu starring Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon. Now with her latest release,The first “seeds” of this story began in October 2016, Ng
. “While the idea was still forming in my mind, the 2016 election happened, along with everything that it emboldened: the rise of the far right, increased nationalism and xenophobia.”follows a 12-year-old boy named Bird whose mother, a Chinese American poet, disappeared three years ago. Under the government’s new preservation laws, books seen as unpatriotic are banned and those found moving against the government — and a new act called PACT — are punished.
“Immersed in a world that felt like it was becoming a dystopia, I couldn’t write a book that pretended those elements didn’t exist,” Ng said. “It was a way of exploring the world we were in, and the issues I was struggling with in my own life. Such as: How are you supposed to raise a child in a world that feels like it is totally falling apart? How do you maintain hope in the face of all this?”
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