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returns with “Our Missing Hearts,” about a 12-year-old boy named Bird growing up in a near future beset by fear and repression. When Bird receives a mysterious letter, he seeks help from a librarian to find his missing mother. It’s literary fiction with a dystopian vibe, weaving in anti-Asian violence and family separation issuesNg was thinking about a book exploring the relationship between an artistic mother and her adolescent child.
Then, the 2016 presidential election happened and“Libraries are much more radical than we give them credit for,” Ng says. “You can go in and any piece of information is available for you. That was a powerful idea for me as a child.”Thank you for being part of our community book club and its year of firsts, bests, moving moments and delights. As always, it’s your participation and support that makes our book club so special. Please reach out and tell us what you’d like to read together in 2023.
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