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008			220414s2022 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2022017272
020			_a9780593492543 _q(hardcover) : _c$29.00
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050	0	0	_aPS3614.G83 _bO97 2022
082	0	0	_a813/.6 _223
100	1		_aNg, Celeste, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aOur missing hearts : _ba novel / _cCeleste Ng.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPenguin Press, _c2022.
300			_a335 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
510	4		_aBookPage, _cOctober 01, 2022
510	4		_aKirkus Reviews, _cAugust 15, 2022
510	4		_aLibrary Journal, _cAugust 01, 2022
510	4		_aPublishers Weekly, _cAugust 01, 2022
520			_aTwelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve "American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic-including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It's a story about the power-and limitations-of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aFamilies _vFiction.
650		0	_aChinese Americans _vFiction.
650		0	_aMother and child _vFiction.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aNg, Celeste. _tOur missing hearts _dNew York : Penguin Press, 2022 _z9780593492550 _w(DLC) 2022017273
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