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Our Missing Hearts

A Novel

by Celeste Ng

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Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
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    Oct 2022, 352 pages

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    Aug 2023, 352 pages

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A chilling novel set in an alternate present in which state-sanctioned violence against Asians and Asian Americans tears families and communities apart.

Celeste Ng's dystopian novel Our Missing Hearts wowed readers in our First Impressions program. All 22 who reviewed the book gave it four or five stars.

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The author holds up a mirror to our present world with all its division, anger and paranoia. Bird and his father are forced to live apart from Bird's mother, who is Chinese American, to keep them all safe from the new law of the land – the Preserving American Culture and Traditions (PACT) Act. Anyone of Chinese birth or ancestry is considered a danger to PACT. Chinese children are removed from their homes, books are banned and freedom of speech is only acceptable if you agree with PACT. As disturbing as the premise is, it is still a story of a family, of love, of faith in humanity and the fallibility of people trying to do the best that they can (Peggy S). It tells the story of a 12-year-old boy, Bird, who ...

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