If you are unable to attend the event, please contact to claim the book(s) included with your ticket purchase and schedule pick up from the CCPL branch of your choice. 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.įor questions about accessibility or to request accommodations for individuals with hearing, visual or mobility impairments, please email. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. 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.īird 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. 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. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. In Our Missing Hearts, twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. 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 thirty languages. Ĭeleste Ng is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. PLEASE NOTE: Per the publisher’s requirement, attendees must wear a mask at all times during this event.Īuthor Celeste Ng will discuss her new novel, Our Missing Hearts.Įach ticket ($25) includes event admission and a copy of Our Missing Hearts.Īdditional books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac’s Backs – Books on Coventry.

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