Celeste Ng Boeken

In Shaker Heights, een rustige, progressieve plaats in Cleveland, is alles minutieus gepland. Van de lay-out van de straten tot de kleur van de huizen en de succesvolle levens van de bewoners Niemand belichaamt deze principes beter dan Elena Richardson. Totdat Mia Warren, kunstenaar en alleenstaande moeder, en haar puberdochter Pearl niet alleen een huis van de Richardsons huren, maar ook een belangrijk onderdeel van de familie worden. Wanneer vrienden van de Richardsons in een lastige voogdijzaak belanden, komen Mia en Elena lijnrecht tegenover elkaar te staan. Elena vertrouwt Mia en haar motieven niet en is vastberaden om de geheimen uit Mia's verleden op te rakelen. Maar haar obsessie komt haar duur te staan.

Juni 1977. In het universiteitsstadje Middlewood ontdekt de familie Lee dat hun dochter verdwenen is. Een paar dagen later wordt het lichaam van de zestienjarige Lydia uit het meer gevist. Verteerd door schuldgevoelens slaat haar vader een roekeloze weg in die hem zijn huwelijk kan kosten. Haar moeder Marilyn is gebroken, maar vastbesloten om een dader te vinden - tegen elke prijs. Lydia's broer is er zeker van dat hun getroebleerde buurjongen Jack iets te maken heeft met het drama. Maar het is de jongste in de familie, Hannah, die meer ziet dan iemand zich realiseert en die wel eens de enige zou kunnen zijn die weet wat er echt gebeurd is.

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere, and series editor Nicole Lamy.The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.Celeste Ng—Puschcart Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere—selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published this year.

From the fan-favorite author of Underneath the Sycamore Tree comes the next installment in a raw, real romance series following the lives of the Lindon U football players and the complicated girls who change their lives forever. When Skylar Allen decided to move across the country for college, she thought it'd be the perfect chance to reinvent herself. But then one party changed the course of her entire freshman year. Just when she thinks she's about to drown in the foggy memories of her night spent partying at the football house, Daniel Bridges walks into her life. Lindon University's wide receiver. A total flirt. And a total threat. Because he can help her take away the memories she does remember from that night. What Skylar doesn't anticipate is the friendship she forms with the witty football player as months go on. And how easy it is to fall for him as he teaches her how to trust again...and so much more.

It happened in stages.My father left.My twin sister died of an incurable autoimmune disease.My mother started breaking down.Then I was diagnosed with the very thing that took my other half from me.That was when I realized Mama's eyes turned gold when she cried.So I moved in with my father and his new family--new wife, new son, new stepbrother.Kaiden Monroe made me feel normal.Hated. Cared for. Loathed. And ... loved.Somewhere along the way, I'd found solace in the boy with brooding eyes.But everything happens in stages.And nothing good ever lasts.

After Raine Copelin turns down her long-time boyfriend Caleb Anders’s marriage proposal, the two are barely speaking, barely coping as they enter graduate school at Lindon University. Caleb doesn’t understand what happened—their relationship has been picture-perfect since high school. He always imagined starting a family together, the same happily ever after his parents had. Until the day she broke his heart, he thought Raine wanted that, too.But Raine has her reasons. Her secrets. She knows she can’t give Caleb the future he wants, so she decides to let him go, no matter the price she has to pay. But when fresh tragedy sends Caleb spiraling back into Raine’s arms, the unanswered questions between them bring old feelings and new wounds to the surface. Fighting grief, lies, and fear, the two must figure out if their love ever truly ended, or if their uncertain futures might still include each other.

From the bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere comes a suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable bond between a mother and child in a fearful society. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet life with his loving but troubled father, a former linguist now working at Harvard’s library. Their existence is dictated by laws aimed at preserving “American culture” following years of economic turmoil and violence. These laws allow authorities to relocate children of dissidents, particularly those of Asian descent, while libraries must remove books deemed unpatriotic, including the works of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left when he was nine. Bird has grown up disavowing her and her poetry, unaware of her fate. However, a mysterious letter with a cryptic drawing ignites his quest to find her. This journey reconnects him with the folktales she once shared, leads him through an underground network of librarians, and reveals the lives of taken children. Ultimately, it brings him to New York City, where an act of defiance sparks hope for change. This narrative explores how seemingly civilized communities can overlook profound injustices, the power and limitations of art in effecting change, and the enduring lessons we pass to our children amidst a broken world.

Set in a New York apartment building, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of neighbours has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Emma Donoghue and Celeste Ng. One week into lockdown, the tenants of a run-down apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants - some of whom have barely spoken to each other before now - become real neighbours. A dazzling, heartwarming and ultimately surprising narrative, Fourteen Days is an ode to the power of storytelling and human connection. Includes writing from: Charlie Jane Anders, Margaret Atwood, Jennine Capo Crucet, Pat Cummings, Joseph Cassara, Angie Cruz, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Maria Hinojosa, Mira Jacob, Erica Jong, CJ Lyons, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Mary Pope Osborne, Doug Preston, Alice Randall, Caroline Randall, Ishmael Reed, Roxana Robinson, Nelly Rosario, James Shapiro, Hampton Sides, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Monique Truong, Scott Turow, Luis Alberto Urrea, Rachel Vail, Weike Wang, DeShawn Charles Winslow, Meg Wolitzer