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Word Choices

Celeste Ng

Novelist


Acclaimed writer Celeste Ng talks to us about word choices in her best-selling novel Our Missing Hearts.

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Word Choices: A New Video Series from Merriam-Webster

 

Celebrated writers share their quest to find the right words