{"title":"Celeste Ng","description":"Celeste Ng is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Her third novel, Our Missing Hearts, will be published in October 2022. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.","products":[{"product_id":"the-best-american-short-stories-2025-paperback","title":"The Best American Short Stories 2025 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Short stories can act like little tuning forks, helping us to clarify our own values,\" writes guest editor Celeste Ng. \"In a time when our values are being tested daily, it's hard to think of anything more important.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Short Stories 2025\u003c\/em\u003e resonates precisely at this pitch: twenty pieces that upend expectations and test the foundation of our beliefs. 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An unflinching yet life-affirming drama about the power of art and love to push back in dangerous times.\" --\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching . . . I was so invested in the future of this mother and son.\" --Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club Pick) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn't know what happened to her--only that her books have been banned--and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Then one day Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon he is pulled into a quest to find her. 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