6/22/2023 0 Comments Book review our missing hearts![]() ![]() …this unshakable belief that the world was a knowable place. And the second is almost at the end of the book and brought tears to my eyes. The first is Bird’s father’s reflections about his wife, Bird’s mother. I don’t want to say more, except READ THIS BOOK, but instead I share two of my favorite passages. The book also lifts the power of words and of story. Bird, after finding some clues, attempts to find her. Her poem “Our Missing Hearts” becomes a slogan, an icon for protesters, and she leaves her family and becomes a fugitive. ![]() The main character is Bird, a 12 year-old Chinese American boy, whose mother is a poet. The references to books taken off library shelves, to the crimes against Chinese Americans, to children separated from parents at our southern borders, and to the fear and systems created to “protect” American culture are all too relevant. So often dystopian novels are far-fetched, and truly stretch our imaginations, but as I read this book, I had to often remind myself that the book is fiction and not nonfiction. The book, a dystopian novel, is also chilling and upsetting. Not an overblown or unnecessary sentence. Smart, huh? The word she used when she passed it on to me is “exquisite,” and it is. I gave my daughter this book, Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng for Christmas, knowing eventually I would get it back from her and then I could read it. ![]()
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