Celeste Ng, novelist
The best-selling author talks about her childhood, her fiction and the importance of, yes, dolls
IN MANY WAYS, CELESTE NG’S HOMETOWN OF SHAKER Heights, Ohio, was all about conformity. When the best-selling author of Everything I Never Told You was growing up there, she says the affluent town’s rules included mandatory lawn mowing (infractions were penalized with a $100 fine) and a regulation putting only one mailbox and one street number on two-family homes, to disguise them
