![]() It’s perhaps less of a dystopia and more our reality with the volume bumped up a notch. Everything in the novel has some precedent in our past, or in many cases, our present. I suspect that will sound familiar to many of us, and that’s on purpose. The America in the book is shaped by fear: The country is recovering from a huge economic crisis, anti-Asian sentiment is all too prevalent, and there are dire consequences for “un-American” behavior. Q: Please describe the society these characters live in.Ī: This world isn’t quite our world, but it isn’t not our world either. ![]() As the book opens, Bird gets a mysterious letter from his mother and is drawn into a quest to find her. Three years earlier, Margaret left the family in mysterious circumstances. A: “Our Missing Hearts” focuses on Margaret, a Chinese-American poet, her Caucasian husband Ethan and their 12-year-old son, Bird. ![]()
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