Celeste Ng – författare

Hur kunde allt gå så snett i en så lycklig familj som Richardsons? När började idyllen Shaker Heights att förändras? Var det när Mia Warren flyttade in med tonårsdottern Pearl i släptåg? Eller började det redan vintern innan, när ett spädbarn hittades övergivet utanför brandstationen? En roman om hemligheter och lögner, om starka blodsband och om en moderskärlek så intensiv att den når bortom dem.

”Små eldar överallt” har legat på New York Times bästsäljarlista i nästan ett år och sålt i över 1 miljon exemplar i USA. Den vann Goodreads Choice Awards pris för bästa roman 2017 och ska filmatiseras till teveserie med Reese Witherspoon och Kerry Washington som producenter och skådespelare.

Sextonåriga Lydia är sina föräldrars ögonsten. Det är hon som förväntas uppfylla deras grusade drömmar: Marilyns önskan om att bli läkare, som hon fick ge upp när de tre barnen kom, och kinesisk-amerikanske James längtan efter att passa in.

Men en dag kommer Lydia inte ner till frukosten, och hennes säng uppe i sovrummet är tom. När dottern hittas död i sjön i närheten av familjen Lees hem rämnar den sköra värld som Marilyn och James har byggt upp.

”Säg inget om Lydia” är ett djupt rörande porträtt av en familj, som gläntar på dörren till tonåringarnas hemliga värld, och till det smärtsamma förflutna som föräldrarna tiger om. Under ytan i det lilla samhället vid sjöns strand ruvar hemligheter, åtrå, skam och en intensiv längtan bort.

Soon to be a Hulu limited series, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington! Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and many more! I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting. -Jodi Picoult To say I love this book is an understatement. It's a deep psychological mystery about the power of motherhood, the intensity of teenage love, and the danger of perfection. It moved me to tears. - Reese Witherspoon Extraordinary...Books like Little Fires Everywhere don't come along often. --John Green Witty, wise, and tender. It's a marvel. - Paula Hawkins From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town--and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs. Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood - and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster. Perfect for book clubs! Visit celesteng.com for discussion guides and more.

An instant New York Times bestseller 

From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes the inspiring new novel about a mother's unshakeable love.

"It's impossible not to be moved." -Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review

"Riveting, tender, and timely." -People, Book of the Week

"Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching . . . 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 Pick)

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn't know what happened to her-only that her books have been banned-and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him. 

Then one day, Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of heroic librarians, and finally to New York City, where he will finally learn the truth about what happened to his mother, and what the future holds for them both.

Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It's about the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and the power of art to create change.

Tolvåriga Bird Gardner har inte sett sin mamma på över tre år. Margaret försvann efter att hennes dikter använts i protesterna mot de stränga lagar som införts för att värna ”amerikansk kultur” och återinföra fred och välstånd efter den så kallade Krisen. Men en dag får Bird ett brev med en kryptisk teckning i. Han inser att hans mamma försöker kontakta honom. Och han bestämmer sig för att hitta henne.

Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard's library. He knows not to ask too many questions, stand out too much, stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic - including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey will take him through the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can turn a blind eye to the most searing injustice. It's a story about the power - and limitations - of art to create change in the world, the lessons and legacies we pass onto our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact.

Tolvåriga Bird Gardner har inte sett sin mamma på över tre år. Margaret försvann efter att hennes dikter använts i protesterna mot de stränga lagar som införts för att värna ”amerikansk kultur” och återinföra fred och välstånd efter den så kallade Krisen. Men en dag får Bird ett brev med en kryptisk teckning i. Han inser att hans mamma försöker kontakta honom. Och han bestämmer sig för att hitta henne.