Our Missing Hearts

Readalong

13 Sep

Racism, Censorship, Totalitarianism, Grief, Murder, Child abuse, Death, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Pregnancy, PTSD, Violence

Our Missing Hearts

Celeste Ng

335 pages

In a world that is governed by fear, 12-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University Library. For a decade their lives have been controlled by PACT, the Preserving American Culture and Traditions Act, that aims at favouring American culture instead of others.

In order to keep peace and restore prosperity after a period of crises the government is allowing to relocate children of dissidents, of people who dared to go against the PACT, and they’re also censoring all those books that are seen as “unpatriotic”, including the books of Bird’s mum, Asian poet Margaret Miu.

However, Bird is a very smart kid and he knows that something is wrong. Where is his mum? Where did they take her? What’s going on behind the curtains? After receiving a very weird letter in his mum’s handwriting, containing a cryptic drawing, he decides he wants to look for her. And he will soon realise the monstrosities that the society he lives in is hiding from its citizens.

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