![]() In some ways, the novel itself is a form of bystander intervention. In Our Missing Hearts, Ng explores how bystanders can make a difference, how in our increasingly polarized society, she believes they must. And it strikes me now looking back how brave that woman was, and how grateful I am to her.” But that was I think maybe one of the only times that a bystander has ever intervened in a case like that. And she said, ‘Why don’t you leave them alone? Why don’t you just, you know, take a step back’ and then he began yelling at her, which was, I think, her goal, and then the bus came, and we got on it. “There was a woman at the bus stop,” Ng says. And he spat at the ground.”Įxperiencing a sudden display of hate was unnerving it came out of nowhere. “And he was really screaming in our faces and saying things like, just go back to, you know, Vietnam or wherever you came from. “This man came up and was screaming at us,” Ng recalls. ![]() She and her sister were waiting for a bus near Tower City, along with their aunt and uncle who were visiting from Hong Kong. ![]() Her new book is not set in Cleveland, but one of its themes builds upon something that happened to her here. ![]() Business Hall of Fame and Community Leader of the Year Awards. ![]()
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