Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng review – an all-too-close dystopia
A boy’s search for his mother, a freedom-loving poet who opposes America’s authoritarian regime, makes for a shaky follow-up to Little Fires Everywhere
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A boy’s search for his mother, a freedom-loving poet who opposes America’s authoritarian regime, makes for a shaky follow-up to Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng introduces an America not unlike our own in a dystopian novel follows a 12-year-old boy in his search of truth and his mother.
Bestselling novelist Celeste Ng is blessed with prodigious gifts. She writes gorgeous, lush sentences that make us look at ourselves and our world differently. Her first two novels have sold more than 2 million copies and her second novel, “Little Fires Everywhere,” became a popular TV series starring Reese Witherspoon. She comes to Santa Cruz on Oct. 18 for a Bookshop Santa Cruz event at UCSC’s Cowell Ranch Hay Barn to talk about her new novel, “Our Missing Hearts.” Witherspoon just tapped the book as her October pick. Community Voices editor Jody K. Biehl talks to Ng about the book...
Book reviewer Suzanne Perez looks at a dystopian novel that strikes a little too close to reality.
Celeste Ng’s third book tackles multiple themes, including surveillance, parenthood, discrimination and the power of storytelling