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💫 Title: Our Missing Hearts ✍️ Author: Celeste Ng 🎭 Genre: Literary Fiction / Dystopian / Contemporary 🌶️ Spice Level: 🌶️ (none) ⭐ Goodreads Rating: ~4.1–4.4/5 📝 The Vibe: Quietly haunting and emotionally powerful—family bonds, suppressed identity, and resistance in a chilling near-future America 📚💔🇺🇸 📚 Summary: Set in a dystopian future where “unpatriotic” behavior is criminalized, Our Missing Hearts follows 12-year-old Bird Gardner, whose mother—a Chinese American poet—disappeared when he was young. In this version of America, children can be removed from their families if parents are deemed a threat to national values, and art and literature are tightly controlled. When Bird receives a mysterious message, he embarks on a journey to find his mother and uncover the truth behind her disappearance. Along the way, he becomes entangled in an underground network working to preserve banned stories and resist cultural erasure. Celeste Ng blends intimate family drama with broader social commentary, crafting a story about love, loss, and the power of stories in times of fear and division. 📚 Reader Notes: Standalone novel with literary depth and dystopian elements. Explores themes of family, identity, censorship, and cultural belonging. Appeals to fans of The Handmaid’s Tale and Station Eleven. Emotionally driven—focuses as much on relationships as on the world-building. Widely discussed in book clubs for its timely themes and conversation value.