![]() ![]() In a near-future, quasi-dystopian, and increasingly authoritarian America, a 12-year-old nicknamed Bird goes on a quest for his mother, Margaret, who disappeared from his life without explanation three years prior. It shares some literary DNA with The Handmaid’s Tale. Our Missing Hearts treads a similar line between literary fiction and social thriller, but this time with a more prominent political through line. Her 2014 debut, Everything I Never Told You, topped best-books lists, and her second novel, the number one bestseller Little Fires Everywhere, made an even bigger cultural splash: It was turned into a much-talked-about Hulu series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. With two stellar prior novels, numerous short stories, and a Guggenheim Fellowship to her credit, Ng has quickly become a leading chronicler of modern American angst, race, and class. But the tale is also shot through with vivid color and rising hope, an unflinching yet life-affirming drama about the power of art and love to push back in dangerous times. Can storm clouds have silver linings? Celeste Ng’s politically charged Our Missing Hearts is a dark landscape on which anti-Asian hate, book bannings, family separation, and other forms of oppression rage. ![]()
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