Bestselling author Celeste Ng will give a talk on February 12 as part of Cornerstone Conversations for first-year students. Her appearance will take place in Gasson Hall 100 and begins at 7 p.m. Ng is the author of  Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts. Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You, was a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book of 2014, as well as Amazon’s #1 Best Book of the year, and winner of the Massachusetts Book Award and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, among other honors. Translated into more than 30 languages, the book is being adapted for the screen. Everything I Never Told You, which tells the story of the Chinese American Lee family, who live in 1970s small-town Ohio, “is a thoughtfully crafted story about race, class, gender, ethnicity, and education, and the parental and societal expectations that mitigate how we understand ourselves and sometimes fail to understand others,” said Elizabeth “Biz” Bracher, director of the Cornerstone Seminar Programs. She noted that many faculty members teaching the Cornerstone Seminar course The Courage to Know have incorporated the book into their coursework. Ng’s appearance is sponsored by the Cornerstone Seminar Program, English Department, and Asian American Studies Program. Read more on BC News.