Celeste Ng is the bestselling author of “Little Fires Everywhere.” Her new novel, “Our Missing Hearts,” is about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear. Bird’s mother was a Chinese American poet who disappeared. When Bird is 12, he embarks on a journey to put together the pieces, aided by an underground network of librarians.
Writer Séamas O’Reilly’s mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten brothers and sisters, and their beloved father in their sprawling bungalow...
It's the perennial question: Are we a product of how we were raised or is our identity hard wired by our genetic inheritance? These...
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history. In her new novel, "Horse,"...