Jennifer Egan Manhattan Beach, and Celeste Ng Little Fires Everywhere: Thalia Book Club
Written by Jennifer Egan and Celeste Ng
Narrated by Cindy Cheung and Susannah Rogers
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Jennifer Egan and best-selling Celeste Ng come together for a compelling discussion of their new novels, Manhattan Beach and Little Fires Everywhere, two stories of family secrets and the children who discover them. Performances by Cindy Cheung (Mistress America) and Susannah Rogers (The Diary of a Teenage Girl).
Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is the author of The Invisible Circus, Look At Me and the short-story collection Emerald City. Her short stories have been published in the New Yorker, Harper’s, and GQ , among others, and her nonfiction appears frequently in the New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and son in Brooklyn.
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