How Dare You Critique Me?

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"I was laying in bed with my son the other night. And he asked a very pointed question about how our family was doing something and said basically like, why are we doing it this way? That that doesn't seem right," she says. "That's one of those like parenting moments where you feel like the clouds open up and says, 'This is the moment I've been trying to get to' It wasn't the first my first reaction was like, fragility."

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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