Celeste Ng (the author of Little Fires Everywhere) sits down with BUST to talk about her new book and her writing process.
Best known for her novels Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere , New York Times bestselling author Celeste Ng is a wildly imaginative creator of family sagas. Her third novel, Our Missing Hearts, is a suspense story revolving around a young man and his estranged mom that comes out October 4. Here, Ng shares the routines that keep her writing her way into the future.
Your new novel, Our Missing Hearts, is set in a dystopian future America. What elements of today’s world did you draw upon to create this alternate vision of reality? ADVERTISEMENT When I started writing the book, it felt dystopian. In the six years it took me to finish, however, many parts of the story have become reality. That’s not me being a prophet—we have a long history of injustices in our country and when we don’t learn from the past, history repeats itself. I’m not sure it’s even accurate to call the novel dystopian; it’s more like America 10 minutes from now.
Emily Rems is a feminist writer, editor, rock star, playwright, and occasional plus-size model living in New York’s East Village. Best known as managing editor of BUST magazine, Emily is also a music and film commentator for New York’s NPR affiliate WNYC, and is the drummer for the horror-punk band the Grasshoppers.
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