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“Uncle Tommy, Uncle Jimmy, Uncle Tony, Uncle Robbie: all of them big men with names like little boys, who stayed for a while and made my mother cry and then drifted out of our lives.”Another beautiful and poetic short story by Celeste Ng. I didn't want it to end! I loved the connection of mother and daughter, between young and old, and the memories that kept surfacing in the main character's life.
Ruskin library selection.
Short and sweet. I really didn't want it to end.
Another great book by Clelste Ng!
Wanted more...so much more!
Gorgeous writing as always from Celeste Ng! Every Little Thing is a short story about Bri, a single mother with an eidetic memory that can potentially be triggered by anything and everything. Bri works at an New England hotel and we follow her as she works to back to back shifts while being force to come face to face with her past over and over again as she interacts with one guest in particular, an underage girl who is staying at the hotel with her older, married "boyfriend." At the time of pos...
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A short story about a woman, Brianna, suffering from a condition I'd never heard before: Hyperthymesia, a highly superior autobiographical memory. The story opens with a very good description of said condition, and while it might sound like a cool thing at first, Brianna's suffering makes clear that it isn't - be it because there are things one doesn't want to remember in all great detail forever, be it because she's loosing track of time and place during her "episodes", which results in weird s...
Celeste Ng can do no wrong this was fantastic.
There’s just something about Celeste Ng that I really enjoy, and she does a wonderful job of writing about all the uncomfortable things we tend to not want to talk about.