Sydney Writers Festival: Livestream and Local - Celeste Ng

Banning books, waving flags and persecurting racial minorities. Sound familiar? Celeste Ng's third novel, Our Missing Hearts, is set in a marginally more dystopian version of Trump's America as a patriotic new law removes children from dissident parents.

After New York Times-Bestselling novel Little Fires Everywhere - which was adapted into a popular miniseries starring Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon - comes a similarly moving tale about the unbreakable bond between a mother and son.

Sit down with Celeste and host Claire Nichols to discuss hope, hero librarians and the power of art to create change.

Celeste Ng appears thanks to the support of Sam Meers AO.

About the author:

Celeste Ng

Celeste Ng is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her work has been published in over thirty languages.

Hosted by Claire Nichols

Claire Nichols is the presenter of The Book Show, bringing you interviews with the best authors from Australia and around the world. Claire has spent more than a decade at the ABC, with roles in television and radio news, current affairs, ABC Local Radio and at Radio National.