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Summary:

"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. 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--including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground 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. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It's a story about the power--and limitations--of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact"-- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

Ng, Celeste , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Our missing hearts: a novel [by Ng, C.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Our missing hearts [by Ng, C.] (New York : Penguin Press, 2022 — ISBN 9780593492550; LCCN 2022017273)

Subjects:

Families — Fiction

Chinese Americans — Fiction

Mothers and sons — Fiction

Government, Resistance to — Fiction

Racism against Asians — Fiction

Chinese Americans

Families

Government, Resistance to

Mothers and sons

Racism against Asians

United States

Genres:

Dystopian fiction

Fiction

Novels

Physical Description:

335 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

PS3614.G83 O97 2022

ISBNs:

9780593492543 (hardcover)
0593492544 (hardcover)
9780593652763 (paperback, international edition)
0593652762 (paperback, international edition)
9780593492550 (electronic book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2022017272

OCLC Numbers:

1311084043