PLEASE NOTE: Per the publisher&rsq uo\;s requirement\, attendees must wear a mask at all times during this ev ent.
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Author Celeste Ng will discuss h
er new novel\, Our Missing Hearts.
Each ticket ( $25) includes event admission and a copy of \;Our Missing Hearts.
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Additional books will be available for
purchase courtesy of Mac&rsquo\;s Backs &ndash\; Books on Coventry.
Questions? Email us at \;events@cuyahogalibrary.org.
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About the author:<
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Celeste Ng \;is the number one \;New York Times \;bestselling author of \;Everything I Never T old You \;and \;Little Fires Everywhere. Ng \;is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, and her work has been published in over thirt y languages.
\nIn Our Missing Hearts\, twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with hi
s loving but broken father\, a former linguist who now shelves books in a
university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions\, stand out t
oo much\, or stray too far. For a decade\, their lives have been governed
by laws written to preserve &ldquo\;American culture&rdquo\; in the wake o
f years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restor
e prosperity\, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dis
sidents\, especially those of Asian origin\, and libraries have been force
d to remove books seen as unpatriotic&mdash\;including the work of Bird&rs
quo\;s mother\, Margaret\, a Chinese American poet who left the family whe
n he was nine years old.
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Bird has grown up disavowing hi
s mother and her poems\; he doesn&rsquo\;t know her work or what happened
to her\, and he knows he shouldn&rsquo\;t wonder. But when he receives a m
ysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing\, he is pulled into a q
uest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she
poured into his head as a child\, through the ranks of an underground net
work of librarians\, into the lives of the children who have been taken\,
and finally to New York City\, where a new act of defiance may be the begi
nning of much-needed change.
For questions about accessibi lity or to request accommodations for individuals with hearing\, visual or mobility impairments\, please email \;events@cuyahogalibrary.org.
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NO REFUNDS. If you are unable to attend the event\, please contact \;events@cu yahogalibrary.org \;to claim the book(s) included with your ticket purchase and schedule pick up from the CCPL branch of your choice. Books not claimed within 7 days of the event will be donated to the Library.
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