Other things that are complicated: the racial makeup of the town where she grew up (Shaker Heights, Ohio), which is actually far less white than most people assume surrogacy law in the state of New Jersey and how it affects queer couples what to do with well-meaning white ladies and figuring out how to eat a plate of “messy fries” while answering interview questions. It’s so complicated! I would totally understand why someone would do that, and I can understand why someone would want that so much.” “I was working jobs that paid $10 an hour,” Ng told me. The same word applies for the ads on the back page of the alt-weekly newspaper she used to read when she was a Harvard college student, offering tens of thousands of dollars for women with specific attributes and SAT scores to serve as egg donors and surrogates. A woman adopting a baby from China because of her own infertility? Complicated. For Celeste Ng, in the spring of 2020, that word is complicated.
From time to time, all of us find ourselves using the same word, over and over again, to describe the world around us.
