Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (Little, Brown Book Group UK, Abacus)

Celeste Ng's poetic, masterfully written novel is about motherhood and love that pushes all boundaries, about a father who wants to protect his son at all costs, about eternal friendship that overcomes all differences, be they political, racial, or generational, ...

After the big crisis, the country is governed by PACT, Preserving American Culture and Traditions. PACT keeps things peaceful and safe. If you act unpatriotic, there would be consequences. There is always someone watching. There is always someone wanting to check. Suspicious eyes swivel to those with foreign faces and foreign names.

Bird's mother is long gone and he lives with his father, anonymously, almost secretly, following all the rules. And yet, he wants to know why his mother left him, he wants her back, and he wants her to want him back, too.

Bird begins to uncover all the secrets surrounding him since his mother's departure. How can he know, if no one teaches him, and no one ever talks about it, and all the books about it are gone?

He is convinced that she’s out there somewhere. Organizing protests. Fighting PACT.

A very current book that covers everything that is happening in the world today and has already happened in the human past. Human nature remains the same, but only some manage to rise above the given circumstances and start their own revolution. 

It takes only one voice to speak into the darkness, carrying messages of love and giving us back our missing hearts.

An extraordinary and unforgettable book.

5/5