Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng

March 29, 2023 Kim Love
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Our Missing Hearts Celeste Ng 4 Stars I hadn’t realized this book would be set against a dystopic backdrop. But it’s one just a couple tiny missteps away from our world today, so close an alternate reality that it hardly feels imagined at all. The timing is apt. The everyday evocation of the threat of Chinese apps, Chinese drones, Chinese viruses, pandemic stories of Asian Americans targeted with racist violence. The one thing our wildly divided politicos and public can agree on is the untrustworthiness of China, with our Dem President positing on what he’d do “if China threatens our sovereignty,” like a movie cowboy swaggering against the The Bad Guys. 3/28/23