| Description |
1 audio media player (approximately 10 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. |
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digital non-volatile flash memory rdatr |
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audio file ACELP rdaft |
| Note |
Title supplied by publisher. |
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Release date supplied by publisher. |
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Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. |
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One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening. |
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Previously released by Penguin Random House. |
| Performer |
Read by Celeste Ng; Lucy Liu. |
| Summary |
A deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve "American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic--including the work of Birds mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesnt know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldnt wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. Its a story about the power--and limitations--of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact. Provided by publisher. |
| Audience |
Adult. |
| Subject |
Asian Americans -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Chinese Americans -- Fiction.
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Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
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Government, Resistance to -- Fiction.
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Racism against Asians -- United States -- Fiction.
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Prohibited books -- United States -- Fiction.
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Chinese Americans. (OCoLC)fst00857249
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Government, Resistance to. (OCoLC)fst00945663
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Mothers and sons. (OCoLC)fst01027007
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Racism against Asians. (OCoLC)fst02027365
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Asian Americans. (OCoLC)fst00818620
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Dystopian fiction. (OCoLC)fst01921637
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Audiobooks.
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Dystopian fiction.
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| Added Author |
Liu, Lucy, 1968- narrator.
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Playaway Digital Audio, issuing body.
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Findaway World, LLC, issuing body.
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| ISBN |
9781669666936 |
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166966693X |
| Music No. |
44202 Findaway World |
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