![]() ![]() The removal of children as a means of political control is less acknowledged, but also a real part of history as well as the present day – migrant families are still being separated at the US’s southern border. Her detailing of the suppression of free speech and creative expression nods to the Red Terror of Soviet Russia and American McCarthyism of the 50s. The book makes heavy political points, yet her writing feels gorgeously supple. The American author of the best-selling Little Fires Everywhere, which was adapted into a 2020 TV miniseries starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, is an astute writer. Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng’s remarkable third novel, is as moving as it is gripping. So she took herself away instead, and mother and son have not seen each other since. Once her phrase became the rallying cry of the insurrection, she knew she risked Bird being taken from his home. “All our missing hearts” comes from a verse she wrote about the children the state removes from their families under the pretext that their parents hold these “un-American values”. ![]() It is thanks to his friend Sadie – and the library in which she hovers every day after school – that Bird learns that his mother is an anarchist poet. ![]()
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