7:00 pm - Friday, October 21

Author Talk: Celeste Ng

Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Theater, USD, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego

Books & Literature

Warwick’s & University of San Diego’s College of Arts and Sciences present Celeste Ng in conversation with Leeva Chung, USD Professor of Communication Studies

Celeste Ng is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.

About Our Missing Hearts
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve "American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic - including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.

Admission/Cost: $29

Location:
Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Theater (KIPJ Theater) at USD
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110

Friday, October 21 - 7:00 PM