Our missing hearts / Celeste Ng.

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1408716917

Hardback Our missing hearts / Celeste Ng.

Author: Ng, Celeste,

Publication year: 2022

Media class: Hardback

Category: Fiction

Publisher: London : Abacus Books, 2022.

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: 9781408716915 (hbk.) :

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Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard's library. He knows not to ask too many questions, stand out too much, 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. 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.

Asian Americans Fiction.