Celeste Ng, novelist

IN MANY WAYS, CELESTE NG’S HOMETOWN OF SHAKER Heights, Ohio, was all about conformity. When the best-selling author of Everything I Never Told You was growing up there, she says the affluent town’s rules included mandatory lawn mowing (infractions were penalized with a $100 fine) and a regulation putting only one mailbox and one street number on two-family homes, to disguise them