Bird's mother, a poet, has disappeared and Bird and his father, who works at a university library, have no clue what's happened to her. The story is about a 12-year-old boy named Bird. And even as dire as things are, a small and dedicated group is still invested in fighting fascism, racism, and injustice. Ng's dystopian America, she tells us at the end, is based on real events - violence against Asian Americans, freedoms curtailed in the name of "patriotism," even children being ripped away from their families.īut there is cause for hope here: In this novel, librarians are heroes of the resistance. What's most terrifying - and what makes this such an engaging read - is that it's not at all hard to imagine this dystopian version of America becoming reality very soon. By the standard definition of dystopia - an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice - Celeste Ng's new novel Our Missing Hearts is DEFINITELY set in a dystopian America.
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