![]() Because I did want people to be able to see with some distance. “I thought about it as if it were a train, but it’s one track over from us. But at the same time, I did want it to feel just at least a couple steps away from our world,” she said of the book. ![]() “I wanted it to be something that would feel like it was plausible - and plausible soon. He begins a dangerous search to find her, without having a full understanding of why she disappeared or how imperiled he is merely by being her son - and by being biracial. “Our Missing Hearts” is Ng’s first book since the Hulu-adapted, explosive suburban drama “Little Fires Everywhere.” It takes place after an economic crisis - for which China becomes the scapegoat - upends life in the United States, allowing authoritarianism to fully take root and flourish.Īt the center of the story is 12-year-old Noah Gardner, also known as “Bird,” a Chinese American boy whose mother goes into hiding after one of her poems becomes a symbol of resistance. ![]() In best-selling novelist Celeste Ng’s vision of a near-future or alternate America, children of dissident families are displaced from their parents, anti-Asian attacks become a terrible, inescapable fixture of American life and librarians form a secret underground network of rebellion as the stewards of information considered seditious under a sweeping new law. ![]()
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