Description
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet life with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, disappeared without a trace when Bird was nine. He knows only that her books have been banned, and resents her for seeming to care more about her work than about him. Then Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey takes him through the folktales she told him as a child, into an underground network of heroic librarians and finally to New York City, where he learns the truth about his mother and what the future holds for them both. Our Missing Hearts is a heart-wrenching novel about the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore profound injustice, the lessons and legacies passed on to children, and the power of art to create change.
Information
Author: Ng Celeste
Language: English
Publication date: April 27, 2023
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Psychological novels in english, Fiction in english, English novels
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 335
ISBN/EAN: 9780349145167