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Sep 2022
25m 24s

Celeste Ng on Race, Class and Suburbia

The New York Times
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Ng discusses her best-selling 2017 novel, “Little Fires Everywhere,” and Judy Blume discusses her adult novel “In the Unlikely Event,” from 2015. 
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