Our Missing Hearts

TitleOur Missing Hearts
Year for Search2022
AuthorsNg, Celeste(b. 1980)
Pagination335 pp.
Date Published2022
PublisherPenguin Press/Penguin Random House
Place PublishedNew York
ISBN Number9780593492543
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

The novel is set in a future United States under the PACT (Preserving American Values Act) that “Outlaws promotion of un-American values and behaviour. Requires all citizens to report potential threats to our society. Protects children from environments espousing harmful views” (21). Systematically removing books from libraries, removing children from their parents, and incarcerating anyone with a view the regime dislike are among the methods used to enforce the law. China is blamed for almost everything. The story is told from the point-of-view of a young boy whose mother, a poet, disappeared, and whose best friend is taken, and he searches for them and for his mother’s books. An “Author’s Note” (327-331) explains the origins and some of the influences and sources for the novel.

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Female author (b. 1980)

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2022 Ng, Celeste (b. 1980). Our Missing Hearts. A Novel. Penguin Press/Penguin Random House. 335 pp. PSt 

The novel is set in a future United States under the PACT (Preserving American Values Act) that “Outlaws promotion of un-American values and behaviour. Requires all citizens to report potential threats to our society. Protects children from environments espousing harmful views” (21). Systematically removing books from libraries, removing children from their parents, and incarcerating anyone with a view the regime dislike are among the methods used to enforce the law. China is blamed for almost everything. The story is told from the point-of-view of a young boy whose mother, a poet, disappeared, and whose best friend is taken, and he searches for them and for his mother’s books. An “Author’s Note” (327-331) explains the origins and some of the influences and sources for the novel. Female author.