Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Lucy Liu
Tags: General Fiction, Bestsellers, Adults, Contemporary
Re uploaded due to technical issues. From the number one best-selling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply heart-wrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear., Read by award-winning actress Lucy Liu, with an authors note read by Celeste Ng., Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvards library. He knows not to ask too many questions, stand out too much, 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 unpatrioticincluding the work of Birds mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years
