What Is a Mother's Responsibility?

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The novel is the story of a 12 year old boy named bird. He's living in an America that's really governed by fear and anti-Chinese sentiment. His mother, Margaret, who is a Chinese American woman, his father's wife, left the family some years before. And he kind of goes on this quest to find her and to understand what happened to her. It asks such beautiful questions about what is a mother's responsibility?

1. What to do when you’ve done everything you were supposed to do and ended up in a place you don’t want to be.

2. Why the question “What do you want?” is terrifying – and how to start answering it authentically for yourself.

3. The power of imagining what does not yet exist in order to make space for new possibilities.

4. The gift of a “midlife crisis”

5. What a mother’s job really is.

About Celeste:

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, is available now. 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.

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