Our missing hearts : a novel
(Audiobook CD)
Author
Contributors
Liu, Lucy, 1968- narrator.
Published
New York, NY : Penguin Audio, [2022].
Format
Audiobook CD
Edition
Unabridged.
Status
Clallam Bay - Talking Books
AUDBK NG Cele
1 available
AUDBK NG Cele
1 available
Sequim - Talking Books
AUDBK NG Cele
1 available
AUDBK NG Cele
1 available
Copies
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Asian Americans -- Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Chinese Americans -- Fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Dystopias -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Government, Resistance to -- Fiction.
Librarians -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Prohibited books -- United States -- Fiction.
Racism against Asians -- United States -- Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Chinese Americans -- Fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Dystopias -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Government, Resistance to -- Fiction.
Librarians -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Prohibited books -- United States -- Fiction.
Racism against Asians -- United States -- Fiction.
More Details
Published
New York, NY : Penguin Audio, [2022].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (11 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
UPC
9780593629611
Notes
General Note
Title from container.
Participants/Performers
Read by Lucy Liu ; with a note read by the author.
Description
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken 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 written to preserve "American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those 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 grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest 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 network 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 beginning of much-needed change.