![]() ![]() Especially after witnessing the last few years of political unrest and attacks on Democracy in our country. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but someday. ![]() ![]() While reading this story, I thought that the events depicted could play out. He needs to know why she left.īird's mother is a well-known Chinese poet, forced into hiding when her poetry is used to oppose a government policy called PACT, which instills fear and mistrust in people. Number one New York Times bestselling author Celeste Ng just announced her next book, Our Missing Hearts (Penguin Press), and Oprah Daily has the exclusive cover reveal. The story follows a young boy, Bird, who journeys to find a mother who left him. It's not hard to imagine the future Celeste Ng paints. ![]() But it also shows the strength of a mother's love and a beautiful but broken mother-son relationship. And yes, it's good and packs a powerful message. Again I loved it - maybe even more than the first. Then I read her second book, Little Fires Everywhere. The novel follows two protagonists, Bird and his mother Margaret, as they navigate an oppressive society that victimizes them due. Published in 2022, it is a reaction to the fears and racism in America following the COVID-19 pandemic. I first fell in love with her writing when I read the book Everything I Never Told You. Our Missing Hearts is a contemporary dystopian fiction novel by New York Times best-selling author Celeste Ng. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. ![]()
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