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🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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In this special episode (a live event for the Streicker Center!), Zibby speaks to New York Times bestselling author Celeste Ng about Our Missing Hearts, a riveting and tender book about a 12-year-old boy’s quest to find his missing mother in a grim, dystopian world. Celeste talks about her book's most prominent elements: anti-Asian racism, the dangers of political extremism, and the power of stories as conduits of memory. She also describes her writing process, the project she paused (but might bring back to life!), and how she juggles her roles of author and mother. Finally, she answers questions from the audience.
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
0:37.4 | learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
0:44.4 | Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts |
0:46.9 | in the ZCast Podcast Network. |
0:49.4 | You can learn more at ZCastnetwork.com |
0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
0:58.4 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Celeste Eng is the author of Our Missing Hearts, a novel. |
1:02.2 | She is also the author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. |
1:06.7 | This is the second time that Celeste is on the podcast, so you can go back and listen to our first one as well if you want more information about her. |
1:14.0 | This particular episode is from my live event with her at Temple Manual's Stryker Center. |
1:21.3 | Celeste's first novel, Everything I Never Told You from 2014, was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times notable book of 2014, Amazon's |
1:29.5 | number one best book of 2014, and it was named a Best Book of the Year by over a dozen |
1:34.4 | publications. Everything I Never Told You was also the winner of the Massachusetts Book Award, |
1:38.9 | the Asian Pacific American Award for Literature, and the ALA's Alex Award. It has been translated |
1:43.7 | into over 30 languages and is being adapted's Alex Award. It has been translated into over 30 |
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