Fiction in a Fractured Age: Celeste Ng

Wed Oct 08 2025 at 07:30 pm to 08:30 pm UTC-04:00

Harris Theatre | Fairfax

Fall for the Book
Publisher/HostFall for the Book
Fiction in a Fractured Age: Celeste Ng
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World-renowned author Celeste Ng discusses her bestselling novels in this Fall for the Book headline event.
About this Event

About the Event

Enjoy an evening with world-renowned author Celeste Ng as she discusses the suspense, drama, and beautifully complex interpersonal relationships that appear in her writing. Ng is the author of Little Fires Everywhere, which was adapted into a Hulu limited series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington and Everything I Never Told You. In her latest New York Times bestseller, Our Missing Hearts, Ng tells the story of twelve-year-old Bird, who lives in a near-future version of America and is on a quest to find his political dissident mother. In a starred review, Booklist describes the novel, “As lyrical as it is chilling, as astonishing as it is empathic, Our Missing Hearts arguably achieves literary perfection.” Sponsored by and

This event is part of the Fall for the Book Festival, which runs from October 7-11, 2025. To view the full schedule, visit: https://fallforthebook.org/schedule/

About the Author

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.


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Harris Theatre, 4471 Aquia Creek Lane, Fairfax, United States

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