I spent a lot of time reading about political movements and revolutions and what the people who were in them had to give up in order to lead those movements. I was asking myself during a lot of the Trump presidency and then during the pandemic: how do I, as a parent, try to make the world better for my kid? How do I try and protect them from the things that are out there? I obviously am not in the same situation that Margaret is in, but those were the seeds of the questions I was seeing a lot of people asking themselves - what do we need to do to try and solve problems in the world, and how much are we really willing to risk? For Margaret, I tried to imagine my way into the position of someone who’s given this sort of authority or reverence that she didn’t actually ask for, and then try and figure out how she would handle that responsibility. Here, Bookselling This Week talked about writing the book with Ng.īookselling This Week: Margaret, a poet unexpectedly proclaimed the voice of the revolution, has made an incredibly difficult decision as a parent - leaving home and cutting all ties with her husband and young son, Bird, instead of risking him being taken away to “protect children from environments espousing harmful views.” How did you craft her character?Ĭeleste Ng: These are questions that I was wrestling with myself - but with the volume turned way, way, way up.
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“Ng wrestles with how to find hope for ourselves and our children against forces that bend toward authoritarianism and nationalism.” “Set in an uncomfortably plausible dystopian near-future, Our Missing Hearts pulls no punches,” said Allyson Howard of Invitation Bookshop in Gig Harbor, Washington. Our Missing Hearts follows twelve-year-old Bird Gardner through his journey to find his mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, after she left three years ago during a time where the government began relocating children from parents deemed a threat to “American Culture.” Independent booksellers across the country have chosen Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts (Penguin Press) as their top pick for the October 2022 Indie Next List.
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