Sydney Writers Festival Live & Local: Celeste Ng - Our Missing Hearts
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Sydney Writers Festival Live & Local: Celeste Ng - Our Missing Hearts

Date & time
Sat 25 May 2024
10:00am to 11:00am
Add to Calendar 2024-05-25 10:00 2024-05-25 11:00 Australia/Brisbane Sydney Writers Festival Live & Local: Celeste Ng - Our Missing Hearts Banning books, waving flags and persecuting racial minorities. Sound familiar? Celeste Ng&#39;s third novel, <em>Our Missing Hearts</em>, is set in a marginally more dystopian version of Trump&#39;s America as a patriotic new law removed children from dissident parents. After New York Times-bestselling novel <em>Little Fires Everywhere</em>&nbsp;- 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. This event is livestreamed from the <a href="https://www.swf.org.au/" target="_blank">Sydney Writers Festival</a>. Ashgrove Library, 87 Amarina Avenue, Ashgrove
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Age

Young adults, Adults (30+), Seniors

Cost

Free

Banning books, waving flags and persecuting 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 removed 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.

This event is livestreamed from the Sydney Writers Festival.

Venue

Ashgrove Library, 87 Amarina Avenue, Ashgrove

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