Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng · 2022
A near-future America persecuting those with sympathies toward China. Ng's third novel is her most ambitious: an urgent story about Asian-American identity, surveillance, and what parents do to protect their children.
The case against
Ng's dystopia runs on borrowed parts: removed books, children taken from parents, a law called PACT whose actual workings stay vague wherever specificity would cost something. A gauzy, fable-like register mutes the politics into sadness rather than fear, and the climax asks one quiet act of protest to carry weight the plot has not built.
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