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Our Missing Hearts

Celeste Ng

Start date: February 1, 2023

Finish date: February 28, 2023

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Dec 20, 2022 Joy D rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: speculative, xauor, north-america, social-commentary, race, literary-fiction, women, reviewed, politics, zzck

Set in a dystopian near-future, twelve-year-old Noah “Bird” Gardner must navigate a world in which children are removed from their families, the Chinese are held responsible for a recent “crisis,” and Americans are living under a new law intended to Protect American Culture and Traditions (PACT). Bird’s mother disappeared from his life three years ago. She is a poet whose verse is being used as a slogan for the protest movement. He misses her and decides to find her.

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Jun 24, 2023 Nanci rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, contemporary, dystopia, sci-fi, tt2023

I try to be honest in my review of a book, because I mostly write them to bring them back to my mind or for when people ask me what I would recommend. Sadly, this Ng book fell flat for me. I'm not a raving fan of Ng, although I have read a few of her books and rated them as 3 or 4 star reads, so I was expecting to like this also. Instead, I never felt engaged to the degree I would have liked. I listened to the audio, so perhaps the written version would be better, but I have no desire to live th ...more

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