![]() It’s a dangerous mission this is a world-scarily similar to the one we’re living in-in which people with Asian features are attacked in broad daylight. Knowing it’s from his mother, he sets off to find her in the book’s central plot. Out of the blue, Bird receives a mysterious letter, a page covered with drawings of cats. government to rehome children whose parents are accused of being un-American. His mother, the Chinese American poet Margaret Miu, vanished without a trace three years earlier, around the time her work became considered controversial amidst the passing of PACT (Preserving American and Culture Traditions), an act opposing foreign cultural influences that allowed the U.S. Bird lives with his father, a former college linguistics professor who now works at the college library shelving books. Set in a dystopian near future, “in a version of America that's like ours but maybe with the volume turned up a little bit,” as Ng explained to NPR, Our Missing Hearts centers on 12-year-old Noah “Bird” Gardner. ![]() ![]() ![]() Books are banned, internet searches are monitored and neighbors are encouraged to spy on one another in Our Missing Hearts, a heartbreaking new novel by Celeste Ng ( Little Fires Everywhere). ![]()
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