Bird recognizes this image as a Japanese children’s story his mother used to read to him. The novel begins with Bird receiving a message from his mother: a drawing of many cats with a tiny cupboard in the corner of the page. Bird is plagued by thoughts of his missing mother. Bird’s white father, once a linguistics professor, now files books, a rare commodity, in the university library. Bird’s mother, a Chinese American poet, disappears to fight PACT. A law called PACT (“Preserving American Culture and Traditions” by punishing “un-American” values and behavior) has been adopted as the status quo against a war with China. The novel is divided into three parts, and this guide divides the parts into chapters that are marked through capitalization of their first sentence.Ĭontent Warning: Our Missing Hearts addresses racism, and as such, includes hate crimes and racial slurs for Asians.īird is an Asian American child who lives in Cambridge, amid a dystopian America. This guide is based on the 2022 Kindle edition.
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