Celeste Ng is the number one New York Times bestselling author of the novels Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.
“Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching . . . It follows the story
of a young boy named Bird on the search for his mother Margaret, a
poet whose work was deemed unpatriotic. I was so invested in the
future of this mother and son, and I can’t wait to hear what you
think of this deeply suspenseful story!” —Reese Witherspoon
(Reese’s Book Club October ’22 Pick)
“Firmly written and well-executed . . . a meditation on the
sometimes accidental power of words . . . I won’t give away the
splendid conclusion of Ng’s book; suffice it to say . . . It’s
impossible not to be moved by Margaret Miu’s courage, or to applaud
her craftiness . . . Ng succeeds . . . partly because her outrage
is contained and focused, and mostly because she is often
captivated by the very words she is using . . . Bird is a brave and
believable character, who gives us a relatable portal into a world
that seems more like our own every day.” —Stephen King, The New
York Times Book Review
“In this riveting, tender and timely book, one mother speaks ‘into
the darkness’ with love. Celeste Ng pleads: Listen.” —People, Book
of the Week
“Our Missing Hearts reflects our headlines back to us, but it also
powerfully and persuasively offers hope for changing those
headlines. In a final moving turn, the novel dramatizes how bearing
witness through art and simply speaking up can melt indifference.
That sounds sentimental, I know, but Ng’s own masterful telling of
this tale of governmental cruelty and the shadow armies of ordinary
citizens who both facilitate and resist is its own best testimony
to the unpredictable possibilities of storytelling.” —Maureen
Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air
“Our Missing Hearts is at its core a parable about the wages of
fear, how it can lead to bigotry, racism and institutionalized
hatred . . . elevated, mythic . . . depicting the workings of
control and domination throughout a culture and a nation . . . The
notion of the accidental warrior is one of the many generous and
compassionate aspects of Ng’s story—the idea that there is
something brave in everyone—if only it can be reached.” —The
Washington Post
“Shot through with vivid color and rising hope, an unflinching yet
life-affirming drama about the power of art and love to push back
in dangerous times . . . Ng’s brilliance lies in leaving the reader
with an unshakable belief that against all odds, people will find
the courage to resist, revolt, and defend . . . remarkable.” —Oprah
Daily
"Propelled by hope, less a grim prognosis of the future than an
impassioned call for a full reckoning with the past . . . resembles
a box of myths transmuting into fresh, symbiotic insights when
converged.” —NPR.org
“A book you won’t be able to put down, nor stop thinking about long
after you do . . . Moves from a meditation on our current political
and social state to a tight suspenseful thriller . . . Ng’s
paragraphs are built with sentences so lovely and lyrical you
likely will find yourself marking passages in every chapter to
share with others.” —USA Today
“Devastating . . . Heartbreaking, beautifully written and
unforgettable—and ultimately a celebration of the power of poetry
and storytelling.” —The Seattle Times
“Heart-wrenching and brilliant . . . This is the book I will pass
down to my children when they ask me what it was like to live
through this time in history: the pandemic, anti-Asian attacks, and
the racial justice protests that have come to define our moment. It
captures the difficulty of bearing witness at personal cost to
oneself and caring about things even when they seem beyond fixing.”
—The Boston Globe
“Stunning . . . At the core of Ng’s narrative—a 12-year-old boy’s
epic quest to find his missing mother—is the all-important question
of how we communicate . . . Poignant.” —Los Angeles Times
“Suspenseful . . . Ng unflinchingly depicts acts of racism, family
fragmentation and the violence seamed into American identity. Ng’s
book is also an homage to librarians who are the vanguard of
resistance to PACT . . . Ng excels at narrative tension and at
mustering readers’ fear and outrage . . . a powerful reflection and
grim augury . . . Like George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo
Ishiguro and Octavia E. Butler, Ng pays close enough attention to
write tomorrow’s headlines.” —The San Francisco Chronicle
“The stunning story Ng beautifully weaves is the perfect book for
our present moment—a cautionary tale of what happens when fear goes
unchecked and of the power of art and brave individuals to bring
social change. Ng writes in her author’s note that ‘it is hard to
analyze your own era,’ but with Our Missing Hearts, she has nailed
it.” —ELLE.com
“This is a haunting, lyrical look at the power of love, art and
banding together to work toward change. It's a heartwarming,
fast-paced read that will challenge you to think more deeply about
our responsibilities to one another and society's most vulnerable.”
—Good Housekeeping
“Ng has crafted an unwaveringly dark fairy tale for a world that
has stopped making sense.” —Vogue
“Ng effortlessly combines a character-led family story with a
detective tale, a tribute to books and storytelling and a
confrontation with history . . . quick and poised . . .
exceptionally powerful and scaldingly relevant.” —The Guardian
(UK)
“The tension is inescapable. Bird's journey, as he searches for
Margaret, has a mythical quality . . . Language and story, her new
work suggests, cannot be taken for granted; stories must always be
heard, always be told.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“So compelling the reader will immediately want to know how it ends
. . . uncomfortable and necessary.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“The quest to find and flex the power of language is the central
conceit of this book. And when we finally meet Bird’s poet mother,
Ng’s prose quickens, becoming more complex, the ideas more nuanced,
the relationships spikier . . . In chronicling the specificity of
parental love, Our Missing Hearts pierces and reanimates our weary
ones.” —WBUR.org
“A jolt to the system and a booster of hope.” —Oprah Daily, Fall
Fiction Preview
“[Ng’s] most powerful work to date.” —People
“Bold, powerful, and timely.” —AV Club
“A compelling and brutal telling of a too-real dystopia . . . It's
a thought-provoking book that will stay with you long after the
last page.”—Country Living
“Deeply poetic, beautifully and succinctly written, and thoroughly
immersive . . . a world we can exist within only briefly, but it
makes a permanent heart-shaped imprint.” —Shondaland
“Powerful and profound.” —KMUW
“[Ng’s] talent is as apparent as ever. The novel shines . . .
poignant and timely . . . a gut-punch.” —PureWow
“Ng is very good at writing social commentary that’s too full of
heart and humanity to feel preachy . . . almost folkloric . . . But
as Ng shifts perspectives and fills in the details of how America
became the version of itself her book describes, things get scarily
real.” —Vulture, Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall
“A timely and riveting dystopian novel which mirrors past and
present societal attitudes.” —Chinese American Librarians
Association
“What an immense joy it is to be back in the trusty hands of
Celeste Ng! Like Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never
Told You, Our Missing Hearts is a careful study of a family trying
their best to live their lives in a world that is rooting against
them . . . [W]hat’s particularly striking is Celeste Ng’s ability
to show us the horrors of this world while also showing how banal
it’s become for our characters . . . This is a tale that is
propulsive and poignant in equal measure; it’s a much-needed love
letter to the written word.” —Literary Hub, 22 Novels You Need to
Read This Fall
“Showcases Ng's own ingenuity and range. Brilliantly envisioned and
filled with Ng's signature tender, intimate character work and
complex family dynamics, this coming-of-age story asks what it
means to be a good parent or a good citizen when every child is at
risk, as well as what power art has to challenge injustice.” —Shelf
Awareness
“Stunning . . . A gorgeous and provocative novel that asks readers
to look critically at American society and reject all modes of
tyranny in favor of company, acceptance and love.”
—Bookreporter
“Known for focusing on families, race, and relationships, Ng raises
the bar another notch in a story intensified by reference to such
police violence, political protest, book banning, and
discrimination against people of color. Ng’s beautiful yet chilling
tale will resonate with readers who enjoyed Margaret Atwood’s The
Handmaid’s Tale and Jessamine Chan’s more recent School for Good
Mothers. As with her previous novels, her storytelling will not
disappoint.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“Sensitive, nuanced, and vividly drawn . . . Thoroughly engrossing
and deeply moving . . . Taut and terrifying, Ng’s cautionary tale
transports us into an American tomorrow that is all too easy to
imagine.” —Kirkus (starred review)
“Remarkable . . . Ng crafts an affecting family drama out of the
chilling and charged atmosphere, and shines especially when
offering testimony to the power of art and storytelling . . . Ng’s
latest crackles and sizzles all the way to the end.” —Publishers
Weekly (starred review)
“Utterly stupendous. Ng creates an exquisite story of
unbreakable family bonds, lifesaving storytelling (and seemingly
omniscient librarians!), brilliantly subversive art, and
accidentally transformative activism. As lyrical as it is chilling,
as astonishing as it is empathic, Our Missing Hearts arguably
achieves literary perfection.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Celeste Ng is undoubtedly at the top of her game . . . Ng’s
prose highlights the fateful and sometimes absurd connections
between our world and the realm of ideas, reminding readers that
what is in our heads will always reveal itself in our bodies. The
result is a novel that will undoubtedly impact how we connect and
live in this terrifying, beautiful world.” —BookPage (starred
review)
“Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching . . . It follows the story
of a young boy named Bird on the search for his mother Margaret, a
poet whose work was deemed unpatriotic. I was so invested in the
future of this mother and son, and I can’t wait to hear what you
think of this deeply suspenseful story!” —Reese Witherspoon
(Reese’s Book Club October ’22 Pick)
“Firmly written and well-executed . . . a meditation on the
sometimes accidental power of words . . . I won’t give away the
splendid conclusion of Ng’s book; suffice it to say . . . It’s
impossible not to be moved by Margaret Miu’s courage, or to applaud
her craftiness . . . Ng succeeds . . . partly because her outrage
is contained and focused, and mostly because she is often
captivated by the very words she is using . . . Bird is a brave and
believable character, who gives us a relatable portal into a world
that seems more like our own every day.” —Stephen King, The New
York Times Book Review
“In this riveting, tender and timely book, one mother speaks ‘into
the darkness’ with love. Celeste Ng pleads: Listen.” —People, Book
of the Week
“Our Missing Hearts reflects our headlines back to us, but it also
powerfully and persuasively offers hope for changing those
headlines. In a final moving turn, the novel dramatizes how bearing
witness through art and simply speaking up can melt indifference.
That sounds sentimental, I know, but Ng’s own masterful telling of
this tale of governmental cruelty and the shadow armies of ordinary
citizens who both facilitate and resist is its own best testimony
to the unpredictable possibilities of storytelling.” —Maureen
Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air
“Our Missing Hearts is at its core a parable about the wages of
fear, how it can lead to bigotry, racism and institutionalized
hatred . . . elevated, mythic . . . depicting the workings of
control and domination throughout a culture and a nation . . . The
notion of the accidental warrior is one of the many generous and
compassionate aspects of Ng’s story—the idea that there is
something brave in everyone—if only it can be reached.” —The
Washington Post
“Shot through with vivid color and rising hope, an unflinching yet
life-affirming drama about the power of art and love to push back
in dangerous times . . . Ng’s brilliance lies in leaving the reader
with an unshakable belief that against all odds, people will find
the courage to resist, revolt, and defend . . . remarkable.” —Oprah
Daily
"Propelled by hope, less a grim prognosis of the future than an
impassioned call for a full reckoning with the past . . . resembles
a box of myths transmuting into fresh, symbiotic insights when
converged.” —NPR.org
“A book you won’t be able to put down, nor stop thinking about long
after you do . . . Moves from a meditation on our current political
and social state to a tight suspenseful thriller . . . Ng’s
paragraphs are built with sentences so lovely and lyrical you
likely will find yourself marking passages in every chapter to
share with others.” —USA Today
“Devastating . . . Heartbreaking, beautifully written and
unforgettable—and ultimately a celebration of the power of poetry
and storytelling.” —The Seattle Times
“Heart-wrenching and brilliant . . . This is the book I will pass
down to my children when they ask me what it was like to live
through this time in history: the pandemic, anti-Asian attacks, and
the racial justice protests that have come to define our moment. It
captures the difficulty of bearing witness at personal cost to
oneself and caring about things even when they seem beyond fixing.”
—The Boston Globe
“Stunning . . . At the core of Ng’s narrative—a 12-year-old boy’s
epic quest to find his missing mother—is the all-important question
of how we communicate . . . Poignant.” —Los Angeles Times
“Suspenseful . . . Ng unflinchingly depicts acts of racism, family
fragmentation and the violence seamed into American identity. Ng’s
book is also an homage to librarians who are the vanguard of
resistance to PACT . . . Ng excels at narrative tension and at
mustering readers’ fear and outrage . . . a powerful reflection and
grim augury . . . Like George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo
Ishiguro and Octavia E. Butler, Ng pays close enough attention to
write tomorrow’s headlines.” —The San Francisco Chronicle
“The stunning story Ng beautifully weaves is the perfect book for
our present moment—a cautionary tale of what happens when fear goes
unchecked and of the power of art and brave individuals to bring
social change. Ng writes in her author’s note that ‘it is hard to
analyze your own era,’ but with Our Missing Hearts, she has nailed
it.” —ELLE.com
“This is a haunting, lyrical look at the power of love, art and
banding together to work toward change. It's a heartwarming,
fast-paced read that will challenge you to think more deeply about
our responsibilities to one another and society's most vulnerable.”
—Good Housekeeping
“Ng has crafted an unwaveringly dark fairy tale for a world that
has stopped making sense.” —Vogue
“Ng effortlessly combines a character-led family story with a
detective tale, a tribute to books and storytelling and a
confrontation with history . . . quick and poised . . .
exceptionally powerful and scaldingly relevant.” —The Guardian
(UK)
“The tension is inescapable. Bird's journey, as he searches for
Margaret, has a mythical quality . . . Language and story, her new
work suggests, cannot be taken for granted; stories must always be
heard, always be told.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“So compelling the reader will immediately want to know how it ends
. . . uncomfortable and necessary.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“The quest to find and flex the power of language is the central
conceit of this book. And when we finally meet Bird’s poet mother,
Ng’s prose quickens, becoming more complex, the ideas more nuanced,
the relationships spikier . . . In chronicling the specificity of
parental love, Our Missing Hearts pierces and reanimates our weary
ones.” —WBUR.org
“A jolt to the system and a booster of hope.” —Oprah Daily, Fall
Fiction Preview
“[Ng’s] most powerful work to date.” —People
“Bold, powerful, and timely.” —AV Club
“A compelling and brutal telling of a too-real dystopia . . . It's
a thought-provoking book that will stay with you long after the
last page.”—Country Living
“Deeply poetic, beautifully and succinctly written, and thoroughly
immersive . . . a world we can exist within only briefly, but it
makes a permanent heart-shaped imprint.” —Shondaland
“Powerful and profound.” —KMUW
“[Ng’s] talent is as apparent as ever. The novel shines . . .
poignant and timely . . . a gut-punch.” —PureWow
“Ng is very good at writing social commentary that’s too full of
heart and humanity to feel preachy . . . almost folkloric . . . But
as Ng shifts perspectives and fills in the details of how America
became the version of itself her book describes, things get scarily
real.” —Vulture, Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall
“A timely and riveting dystopian novel which mirrors past and
present societal attitudes.” —Chinese American Librarians
Association
“What an immense joy it is to be back in the trusty hands of
Celeste Ng! Like Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never
Told You, Our Missing Hearts is a careful study of a family trying
their best to live their lives in a world that is rooting against
them . . . [W]hat’s particularly striking is Celeste Ng’s ability
to show us the horrors of this world while also showing how banal
it’s become for our characters . . . This is a tale that is
propulsive and poignant in equal measure; it’s a much-needed love
letter to the written word.” —Literary Hub, 22 Novels You Need to
Read This Fall
“Showcases Ng's own ingenuity and range. Brilliantly envisioned and
filled with Ng's signature tender, intimate character work and
complex family dynamics, this coming-of-age story asks what it
means to be a good parent or a good citizen when every child is at
risk, as well as what power art has to challenge injustice.” —Shelf
Awareness
“Stunning . . . A gorgeous and provocative novel that asks readers
to look critically at American society and reject all modes of
tyranny in favor of company, acceptance and love.”
—Bookreporter
“Known for focusing on families, race, and relationships, Ng raises
the bar another notch in a story intensified by reference to such
police violence, political protest, book banning, and
discrimination against people of color. Ng’s beautiful yet chilling
tale will resonate with readers who enjoyed Margaret Atwood’s The
Handmaid’s Tale and Jessamine Chan’s more recent School for Good
Mothers. As with her previous novels, her storytelling will not
disappoint.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“Sensitive, nuanced, and vividly drawn . . . Thoroughly engrossing
and deeply moving . . . Taut and terrifying, Ng’s cautionary tale
transports us into an American tomorrow that is all too easy to
imagine.” —Kirkus (starred review)
“Remarkable . . . Ng crafts an affecting family drama out of the
chilling and charged atmosphere, and shines especially when
offering testimony to the power of art and storytelling . . . Ng’s
latest crackles and sizzles all the way to the end.” —Publishers
Weekly (starred review)
“Utterly stupendous. Ng creates an exquisite story of
unbreakable family bonds, lifesaving storytelling (and seemingly
omniscient librarians!), brilliantly subversive art, and
accidentally transformative activism. As lyrical as it is chilling,
as astonishing as it is empathic, Our Missing Hearts arguably
achieves literary perfection.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Celeste Ng is undoubtedly at the top of her game . . . Ng’s
prose highlights the fateful and sometimes absurd connections
between our world and the realm of ideas, reminding readers that
what is in our heads will always reveal itself in our bodies. The
result is a novel that will undoubtedly impact how we connect and
live in this terrifying, beautiful world.” —BookPage (starred
review)
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