She speaks crisply and quickly, her mind overflowing with ideas and enthusiasm.
“That gave me the idea of a literary fire that might burn everything to the ground,” Ng recalls. The initial idea for Little Fires Everywhere was sparked by a church fire in Cambridge in 2009. She lives near Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and soon-to-be 7-year-old son. So it was fun to get to do that.”Īs we talk on a hot summer morning, Ng sits in the corner of a dark cafe near Harvard University, her alma mater.
And then there are the quiet indie films, and that’s what literary fiction is. If you think about action movies, Michael Bay gets to blow everything up. “In literary fiction, you don’t often get to have explosions. “That was fun,” Ng says with a grin, referring to her new novel’s incendiary beginning. Her latest novel, the mesmerizing Little Fires Everywhere, starts with an equally provocative lead: “Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down.” Her debut bestseller, Everything I Never Told You (2014), begins with devastating news for a Chinese-American family. Ng’s narratives reveal families plagued by delicately interwoven secrets and misunderstandings that ultimately yield tragedy. At first glance, Celeste Ng may look unassuming, but make no mistake, this bright-eyed writer is a veritable fireball.
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