For my money Celeste Ng is one of the most complete writers working today.\u00a0 She always spins an interesting yarn that sucks you in.\u00a0 She’s more than just a raconteur, though.\u00a0 When I look at her work more broadly, the plot structure is clear and concise.\u00a0 The key points are all balanced and adorned with just enough ornamentation for relief and contrast.\u00a0 The sections, chapters, and paragraphs all serve the story.\u00a0 And the whole story is built from charming – occasionally gorgeous – prose.<\/p>\n
That narrative comprises themes and imagery amplified by repeating motifs. These school below the surface, reinforcing the ideas and emotions without distracting from them.\u00a0 The themes Ng explores are complex and powerful enough that her multicultural and multifaceted views find plenty of traction.\u00a0 She lights new ideas in those themes and points out the path to long standing takes.\u00a0 She lays out a solid intellectual meal.<\/p>\n
Her thematic exploration is literary and lively. Metaphor and imagination rule here.\u00a0 Her precise prose leads readers through these oblique and attractive path to the underlying ideas without detracting from the literary scenery.\u00a0 She is masterful in both her choices of images and her execution.<\/p>\n
I worry that when I praise a writer like I’m an English teacher I turn potential readers away.\u00a0 Fires<\/em> is interesting and dramatic to read.\u00a0 It’s fun.<\/p>\n Strongly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For my money Celeste Ng is one of the most complete writers working today.\u00a0 She always spins an interesting yarn that sucks you in.\u00a0 She’s more than just a raconteur, though.\u00a0 When I look at her work more broadly, the plot structure is clear and concise.\u00a0 The key points are all balanced and adorned with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}