Celeste Ng's novels and literary work often deal with the idea of American-Asian identity. Her writing is deeply rooted in the cultural experiences of being an Asian-American. Ng's novels have explored the idea of being a second generation immigrant and how this can affect one's identity. Some of her books are written as memoirs based on her own experience, and some are fictional. Her first novel "Everything I Never Told You" was a debut novel that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2017. The novel is about a Chinese-American family living in 1970s Ohio who find out the daughter has been killed by accident and is now 1/4 white. The novel deals with themes of race and privilege, and how these intersect with family dynamics. "The Wall" is a fictional family drama that was published in 2016. The main character, Lulu, is an American-Chinese woman who has just found out her mother abandoned her as a child. Lulu visited China to try and find some sense of truth or closure, but instead found that it was still just as painful to accept the truth she had been denied all these years. Ng's book deals with themes of reconciliation in a family that remains distant or broken due to secrets.