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. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers.This guide is based on the 2022 Kindle edition. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures.

Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and TomorrowĬhris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College.

She is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors.

Little Fires Everywhere has been adapted as a limited series on Hulu, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. It was named a best book of the year by over 25 publications, the winner of the Ohioana Award and the Goodreads Readers Choice Award 2017 in Fiction, and has spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list. Her second novel, Little Fires Everywhere (2017) was a #1 New York Times bestseller, a #1 Indie Next bestseller, and Amazon's Best Fiction Book of 2017. Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You (2014), was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications. Celeste Ng is the author of three novels, Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts.

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