Celeste Ng Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/celeste-ng/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 03 Jan 2023 21:02:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Celeste Ng Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/celeste-ng/ 32 32 38398750 Best Books of 2022 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/best-books-of-2022/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/best-books-of-2022/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2022 08:12:15 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17178   I’m going to cut to the chase: it was a challenging year for my reading. Not due to a lack of options, I just lost my reading mojo for a while. However, there were 8 books that broke through my broken brain and gave me all the pleasure I look for in my reading. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/best-books-of-2022/feed/ 8 17178 Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/our-missing-hearts-by-celeste-ng/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/our-missing-hearts-by-celeste-ng/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:26:15 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17057 What better time to review a novel set in an unspecified time in America’s not-too-distant future than the day before an election? Celeste Ng’s novel, Our Missing Hearts, could either be the way things should be or a dystopian hell, depending on your beliefs. I’ll leave it to you to suss out where I stand, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/our-missing-hearts-by-celeste-ng/feed/ 2 17057 Little Fires Everywhere https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/09/little-fires-everywhere/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/09/little-fires-everywhere/#comments Mon, 11 Sep 2017 07:12:19 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9299   In her outstanding debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng delicately exposed the family tragedy that can result from unrealistic expectations and the insecurity of trying to fit into a new culture. In her newest novel, Little Fires Everywhere, the Richardson family has no such problem. They are picture postcard perfection, happily […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/09/little-fires-everywhere/feed/ 8 9299 Everything I Never Told You https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/06/everything-never-told/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/06/everything-never-told/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:41:39 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2977 Celeste Ng’s debut novel Everything I Never Told You is the story of the Lee family. They live in Ohio where the father James is a professor and wife Marilyn stays at home and raises Nathan, Lydia, and Hannah. This is the Rockwell painting version but within those broad strokes there is the kernel, the seed […]

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