CPL Presents: Celeste Ng (Main) In-Person / Online
Join the Cambridge Public Library in welcoming Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, an international bestseller since adapted into a popular television drama, and Our Missing Hearts, recipient of starred reviews from Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal.
After a reading from her work, Celeste will appear in conversation with Nina MacLaughlin, author of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Massachusetts Book Award. A book signing will follow.
This event is a hybrid event and is co-sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation. Registration is required. Note: face masks are encouraged, but not required.
- Date:
- Tuesday, September 3, 2024
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 8:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Lecture Hall
- Branches:
- Main Library
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Author Event City Event Feature Presentation/Lecture
Celeste Ng is the bestselling author of three novels, Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts. Celeste grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio. She graduated from Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan (now the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan). Her fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, and many other publications, and she is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors.
Nina MacLaughlin is the author of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, as well as Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award. Her first book was the acclaimed memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, a finalist for the New England Book Award. Formerly an editor at the Boston Phoenix, she worked for nine years as a carpenter, and is now a books columnist for the Boston Globe.