What if you had to live in a world where your identity, your culture, and your freedom were under constant threat? Where the authorities could take away your children, your books, and your voice? Where the only way to survive was to hide who you are and what you love?

This is the world of Our Missing Hearts, the new novel by Celeste Ng, the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere. A gripping and heartrending story of a mother's unbreakable love for her son in a society consumed by fear.

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. 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.

Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can pretend to ignore the most searing injustice. It's a story about the power?and limitations?of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact.

If you are looking for a novel that will challenge you, move you, and inspire you, don't miss Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng. Order your copy today and discover why it has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction and praised by critics and readers alike. You won't regret it.