![]() Ng received an MFA in writing from the University of Michigan Everything I Never Told You won the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and the American Library Association’s Alex Award. In Little Fires Everywhere, the unwelcome presence of an itinerant artist and her daughter roils the staid community of Shaker Heights, Ohio, inflaming racial, cultural, and economic tensions that result in a suspicious fire. Ultimately, the book’s structure helps illuminate Ng’s own creative process, the way she uses a central narrative enigma-a drowning, a fire-as an opportunity to uncover her characters’ hidden desires and secret histories. In a conversation for this series, she discussed how the subtle, mysterious illustrations have more in common with Christie and Conan Doyle than you might think, asking the careful reader to provide solutions to a series of confounding puzzles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ng’s interest in that persistent question- why?-helps to explain her attraction to the children’s classic Goodnight Moon. The Predator That Makes Great White Sharks Flee in Fear Ed Yong ![]()
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