"Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow."

Celeste Ng (1980)
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About Celeste Ng

Celeste Ng is an American author known for her bestselling novels exploring themes of family, identity, and cultural expectations. She gained widespread acclaim for her debut novel "Everything I Never Told You," which was a New York Times bestseller and won numerous awards. Ng's second novel "Little Fires Everywhere" was also well received, and it was adapted into a television series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.

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