Join us for our September book club to dis
cuss Our Missing Hearts \;by Celeste Ng.
Copies of the b
ook are available at the library\, or in our library catalog in e-audioboo
k or e-book formats. This program is for adults. Registration is not requi
red.
From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Ev erywhere\, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbr eakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twe lve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but brok en father\, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University' s library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions\, stand out too much\, or stray too far. For a decade\, their lives have been governed by laws w ritten to preserve "American culture" in the wake of years of economic ins tability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity\, the auth orities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents\, especially th ose of Asian origin\, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic-including the work of Bird's mother\, Margaret\, a Chinese- American poet who left the family when he was nine-years-old. Bird has gro wn up disavowing his mother and her poems\; he doesn't know her work or wh at happened to her\, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receive s a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing\, he is drawn into a quest to find her. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new\, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injusti ce. It's a story about the power and limitations of art to create change\, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children\, and how any of us c an survive a broken world with our hearts intact
\nhttps://hcplc.libnet .info/event/11437548 URL;VALUE=URI:https://hcplc.libnet.info/event/11437548 ATTACH:https://static.libnet.info/images/events/hcplc/our_missing_hearts.j pg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR