What Is the Role of Art in Making the World a Better Place?

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As a writer, especially when the pandemic first hit and everything was closed down, I was thinking like, I feel really useless. Is there any role that art can play in trying to make the world into a better place? And how do you reconcile that? That's very much one of the questions that Margaret Bird's mother in the book is trying to figure out. She's so far out of the sandbox. Maybe if we reject all the sandboxes of white supremacy and patriarchy, we find those three things that you just said. Maybe that's what's next is changing the world.

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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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