Its set in a not-too-distant future where entire sections of the population are deemed un-American and. He ends up traveling through a secret network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. October 22 Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic.īut when Bird decides to go on a quest to find his mother, he finds himself remembering the folktales she poured into his head as a child.
Their lives have gone mostly underground, after Bird’s mother, Margaret Miu, a Chinese American poet, left the family in the wake of laws written to preserve “American culture.”
It delves into the power of intellectual freedom in an authoritarian world and the strong bonds of family in a society steeped in fear.ġ2-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his father, who used to be a linguist but now works at a library. Her new novel, “ Our Missing Hearts,” is also receiving critical acclaim. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. The novel takes place in a world that isn’t exactly our world, but it isn’t not ours, either, writes Ng in the Author’s Note (327). Celeste Ng’s “ Little Fires Everywhere” was a best-selling novel, even before it became a hit series for Hulu. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new.
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