
137. Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck
We Can Do Hard Things
What Is a Mother's Responsibility?
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?
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